We use FileMaker pro for our customer database as well as some other vendor proprietary software.
When wine broke, we could no longer use any of that software. Rather than fix wine RH dropped it.
There is nothing I like about M$ products, but I no longer had an option because wine was
broken and people couldn't do their job.
The reason I hadn't used "an application server win winblows 2k" was because management said
they didn't want "a single point of failure for business critical applications". Yet now that they have
had to pay licencing fees, they are considering it for our new accounting system. That was my first
suggestion though, because the same library that broke wine broke VMware. In the week or two it
took the fixes for wine to show up on freshrpms, it was already too late and all the machines but
mine were updated.
The only reason I was able to keep my RHL 8.0 machine was that I was donig R&D on it and did
not need access to FileMaker Pro while on that project. I ended up porting that project to FreeBSD
and now all our servers are running FreeBSD. The Reason we had switched to Linux in the first
place was, because we did not want to pay high proprietary vendor Unix licencing and support fees.
Part of the reason we switched to FreeBSD rather than another Linux was we absorbed another
company around that time and they were a FreeBSD shop. Since I had more experience with
more Linux/Unix variants and RHL was causing problems, it was decided that I would migrate
our custom apps to FreeBSD. It made sense to me that rather than switch to a new linux distro
that I would have get used to, and train the new admins, it would be far simpler for me to get
used to FreeBSD.
Rodrigo Del C. Andrade wrote:
Whats is that, that makes you so dependent of winblows software?
And if it so dependable to the point of ditching linux (forgive me father), why not use an application server win winblows 2k and access what yuou absolute must with rdesktop or some scheme like that?
Vantroy
GuGuy Fraser wrote:
Yup that's pretty much my take too. Back when RH broke wine just before RHL9,
I was forced to ditch linux on all desktops but my own at work. It looks like I may
have to ditch mine too now :(
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