Re: Got OSS?

* Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net> [060214 13:43]:
> It was only a short time ago that M$ was saying, it is a hobbiests OS
> and nothing more, I also remember Balmer or Gates answering a question
> about Linux where the reply was along the lines of, It is a non-issue
> and we don't even pay attention to it.
>
> I was reading an article about how Oracle, M$ and IBM are now offering
> free scaled down versions of their DB products. The reason this was done
> was to be able to compete with OSS versions such as mysql and
> postgresql. Their hope is that people will use their crippled version to
> get familiar then pay for the full version.
 
  Along these lines.... does anyone know if there has been any progress
  made towards reading MS-Access .mdb files from open-source tools?

  I have a lot of clients who use MS-Access.... so just wondering.
  thanks
  tim

> I always hated hunting down an application that would do what I was
> trying to do only to find it in a "lite" version. If I wanted the whole
> app I would have to pay like 10 bucks or something. And it always seemed
> like the feature I needed was crippled in the lite version and to do
> what I needed would have to buy the program. Screw that.
>
> That is exactly what drove me to Linux and OSS software, I was not
> limited to what I could do through the program. Now these 3 monsters of
> the midway are going to try to hook people on their lite versions of
> their crippled software in hopes they will buy later. I don't see this
> happening, people will use OSS versions that are not crippled and allow
> them the freedom to do what they want without having to pay for this
> feature or that feature. They are doomed to failure.
>
> Its a great time to be into the OSS movement, I liken it to the 80's
> when we watched the entire landscape of the political world change
> before our eyes. We are again seeing this but in a different arena.
>
> Viva la Linux!
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