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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.89.123.24!nntp.inet.fi!news.csc.fi!nntp.hut.fi!news From: mjalava@ahti.hut.fi (Mika Jalava) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 11 Feb 1997 11:15:18 +0200 Organization: TKK/Vesitalouden laboratorio Lines: 15 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5dpdb6$5to@ahti.hut.fi> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dctol$13si@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ahti.hut.fi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157675 comp.os.linux.networking:68053 comp.os.linux.setup:96690 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5968 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2453 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52552 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267095 In article <5dctol$13si@usenet1y.prodigy.net>, bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: >Had you read the rest of my post it would have been clear. With >Windows you have a choice of similar apps from multiple vendors, >while with UNIX you typically have a choice between zero and one >which will really address the problem, and maybe a few more which >could be used to do the job in some fashion. How many similar applications do you NEED? Do you really USE many similar applications in Windows environment? And still, if you really want, you can buy more than one word processors or spreadsheets for Unix systems. Mika