[Lias] netNOW NZ - Getting to the source

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:45, Paul Gear wrote:
> I can't even suggest a Windows XP upgrade without sending some people
> into a tizz about Windows 3.1 application compatibility...

Well, there's an opening. WINE runs the 3.1 stuff quite well now. You 
can set up an application server to do that with the apps that work, 
and have people connect to it with the rootless X server now available 
as part of CygWin. And then point out that the workstations might as 
well be Linux on lower-spec (recycled) hardware since X doesn't much 
care what it's being displayed on.

It won't work for every aplication, but you will get some wins, which 
gets Linux in the door even if only as (oh, the irony) a Windows 
application server and might allow you to upgrade some workstations to 
this century's hardware (which you will need to run XP; the official 
min spec is 128MB but if you want to run Office as well, make that at 
least 256MB).

Cheers; Leon

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