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Greetings Jeff..

Easy! Slow down.. take a good look at what is happening in the Linux
community these days. Red Hat 5.0 (http://www.redhat.com/) has been named
the product of the year for 1997 by Info World. This OS (Linux) is
certainly gaining quite a following and at a rate that is surprising just
about everyone in the computer industry. Adhering to the POSIX standard,
this clone is essentially UNIX for little to no cost. Support IS available
through the official releases offered by various companies here in the US.
Software is available over the Net, again, for little to no cost and you
can often write the programmer him/herself directly. Good luck trying to
get to the folks that are actually doing the coding at any major commercial
software company in the US. In addition, now-a-days, your often going to
pay on a per min. basis. Now there is NO doubt that the installed base for
the DOS world (Windows) is unequal, however, there are more and more
discovering this OS (Linux) especially in environments where the job
(server / client) needs to be done one way or another and the budget is
tight (usually the case).. 

I personally like it simply due to all the programming languages that come
along with it for no charge! If I need to do BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, C /
C++, Java and a multitude of others, the cost is little if anything.
Recently, I found that I wanted to get an all-in-one suite which I actually
opt'd to purchase (vs. downloading others). The cost, $75 which included
word processing, spread sheet, graphics, Web authoring tools, email etc.
along with a 800+ page manual. Something else that's becoming more and more
rare that usually doesn't come along with suites these days. The equivalent
for the DOS world would have certainly been a few more dollars with no
manuals included..

Cheers,
Gary

Also take a look at what is happening in the headlines of Linux at:
http://www.linuxmall.com/
it would appear that Corel along with the US Postal Service have also
recently acknowledged what Linux can do.. Certainly the shuttle astronauts
appear to be putting the OS to work since it has flown aboard..


On Thu, 14 May 1998 10:21:47 -0500, Jeff Elliott <cguru@zebra.net> wrote:

>Hi Franck,
>
>I too would like to know what your problem(s) is/are with Microsoft's
>compilers.  We can't use Linux's compiler on DOS or Windows, you know, and
>a very small minority of the world runs Linux anyway.  I wonder how ANSI
>compliant Linux's compiler is, too... let alone support issues (who do you
>call when you have Linux problems/questions?).  Surely you realize that
>different companies specialize in products for different operating
>systems, right?  Microsoft and Borland don't make C/C++ compilers for *nix
>systems, AFAIK, and Linux certainly doesn't qualify as a real Unix system
>(kinda like calling the Volkswagon Beetle a "luxury car".
>
>Jeff
>
>
>Franck VERDIERE wrote:
>> 
>> No doubt !
>> 
>> Do not use Microsoft !!!
>> 
>> If you want a "real" C++ compiler without trouble, use a GNU one !
>> (Linux built-in one, for example).
>> There is no buttons and no big colours, but there is no (less) bug !
>> 
>> Borland is not ugly but seriously hard (coz of its link with
>> MS OS)...
>> 
>> Good luck !
>> 
>> Franck