Thread: some good news
Thought that a wee bit of good news would be a change... Today I produced my first set of mailing labels in OpenOffice.org connected to PostgreSQL datbase. So what! No big deal? Well everything was running on Mac OS X 10.2.4! PostgreSQL 7.3.x server and weekly build of OOo final beta with Apple JDK 1.4 support. Macs in a business context are looking like a serious option once again. Cheers Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
What would be even better is if all those apps came preinstlled and working on Macs, and then the primary owner of Apple, bill gates, might begin to sweat a little, which would be good for him. Cause, the mac is a superior hardware platform, and maybe it would begin selling again, and then there'd be less demand for Microslop software. Tony Grant wrote: > Thought that a wee bit of good news would be a change... > > Today I produced my first set of mailing labels in OpenOffice.org > connected to PostgreSQL datbase. > > So what! No big deal? > > Well everything was running on Mac OS X 10.2.4! PostgreSQL 7.3.x server > and weekly build of OOo final beta with Apple JDK 1.4 support. > > Macs in a business context are looking like a serious option once again. > > Cheers > > Tony Grant
> What would be even better is if all those apps came preinstlled and working on > Macs, and then the primary owner of Apple, bill gates, ??? > might begin to sweat a > little, which would be good for him. > > Cause, the mac is a superior hardware platform, and maybe it would begin selling > again, and then there'd be less demand for Microslop software. I know I'm slow, but where's the punch line? -- Joel Rees <joel@alpsgiken.gr.jp>
Dennis Gearon wrote: > What would be even better is if all those apps came preinstlled and > working on Macs, and then the primary owner of Apple, bill gates, > might begin to sweat a little, which would be good for him. Don't you mean Steve Jobs? > > Cause, the mac is a superior hardware platform, and maybe it would > begin selling again, and then there'd be less demand for Microslop > software. > > Tony Grant wrote: > >> Thought that a wee bit of good news would be a change... >> >> Today I produced my first set of mailing labels in OpenOffice.org >> connected to PostgreSQL datbase. >> So what! No big deal? >> Well everything was running on Mac OS X 10.2.4! PostgreSQL 7.3.x server >> and weekly build of OOo final beta with Apple JDK 1.4 support. >> >> Macs in a business context are looking like a serious option once again. >> >> Cheers >> >> Tony Grant > ...snip...