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Originally posted by gekko
[b]Eudora? Ick man. Entourage is FAR better. I can't stand Eudora, ick, ick.
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Well, never could stand entourage myself. Horses for courses I guess. I just find that it's filtering sucked compared to Eudora, and I didn't like the interface much at all; plus, from my experience anyway, Eudora has more functionality in the things I care about.
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Originally posted by gekko
And what do you classify as industrial programs?
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By industrial programs, I mean expensive applications that usually only businesses can afford/need (not counting cracked version obviously). Examples include photoshop, 3DS Max and a whole host of statistical modelling software and the like (but lower end than the supercomputer stuff). Uni is full of all sorts of obscure programs; the old apps run on our Unix machines (typically the Sun Sparc's), all the astronomy software runs on Linux (mainly cos it was written as a non-professional venture), and absolutely everything else runs on Windows. Some members of staff have to have two or three computers just so they can run all the software they need.
Truth of he matter is, if there's certain software you have to use, if you're lucky you can get away with a Mac, if not you're lumbered with a 'doze box.
Your average home user could get away with never using M$ Office, instead opting for one of the open source alternatives, cos compatibility isn't an issue, since the chances are the files will remain on that machine only. In business though, thos files will be mailed all over the world, meaning compatibility IS an issue.
Which is a shame really; Linux is the only OS that is not architecture specific; IBM PC's run Linux, Macs run Linux, Nokia mobile phones run Linux, Google runs Linux, great big industrial rendering engines run Linux. It's not at all difficult to port version all over the place if you have access to the source code.
The reason M$ won't do this is that they KNOW that by keeping Office on Windows (and to a lesser extent Macs) they keep everyone in the "buy our OS, upgrade!" loop. If Office was made available on the Linux platforms ( and to an extent it is, with things like StarOffice and all the rest, but thanks to M$'s frequent changing of the API's there are still many compatability issues) then they know an awful lot of businesses would migrate to Linux as their OS of choice - it would save them a fortune in licensing and security updates, and very little in terms of retraining and M$ would lose a bunch of business, which is why they're currently doing everything in their power to spread FUD about OSS and trying to halt it's development (Re: trying to make Samba/NFS illegal, amongst other things).
Oooh look, recent Register headline: "MS exec argues for right to break rivals' software". I love it when they do that.