Thread: some good news

some good news

From
Tony Grant
Date:
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


Re: some good news

From
Dennis Gearon
Date:
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


Re: [OT] some good news

From
Joel Rees
Date:
> 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>


Re: some good news

From
Guy Fraser
Date:
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
>
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