Wirt after Denys:

> .... you've been snookered. The "anything" you're able to read is
> anything Microsoft codes up. Without noticing it yourself, you've
> slowly and insidiously become one of Bill Gates' mindless robots,
> a whole-hearted endorser of the evil Bill's mantra, "embrace and
> extend, embrace and extend, embrace and..."

hmmm..... do I sense the potential for a "Dark Side" version of
Wirt's old take-off of the Heaven's Gate web site here ??....
Instead of our usual suspect HP 3000 "angel of light", there could
be a "Yellow Brick Road" with "embrace and extend" on every brick..
then we really would have the road to the Prince of Darkness paved
with seemingly good but sinister intentions....        ;-)

FULL DISCLOSURE:  We are a 100 percent Microsoft shop on
the client side.  I use MS Office every day;  works pretty good
for me.  Access97 is doing pretty well as a front-end query tool
going against Image/SQL.  The last tiny handful of Mac holdouts
on Station will fade into history within the next couple of months,
leaving NUWC-KPT with (I think) somewhere around 1500 Win95
and NT Workstation desktop units.  Regardless of arguments that
might be made for and against that outcome (please -- I'm not
looking for any), it's reality....  now if only I had bought some MS
stock 10 years ago......  sigh....

Ken Sletten