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Re: Executor usefulness?



Howii (chenhh@cs.purdue.edu) wrote:
: Does anybody else question the usefulness of Executor?  

Along the line of my "Linux Journal" article (issue 19, Nov 1995) I have 
the following to say from the point of view of a 100% Linux user: Executor
provides much needed functionality for Linux since one can run commercial
productivity applications. Linux by itself does not provide stable Windows
emulation yet (and we are waiting and waiting and ...). There have only a few
commercial wordprocessors, spreadsheets, etc. been ported to Linux. So one
reasonable alternative is to use executor and Mac-applications to bridge
this gap. Also, Mac applications can he bought fairly cheap from Mac users.
Bottomline, in the short term executor can help me to get some much needed 
applications running under Linux.

The future might look different though. Linux applications are emerging at a
rapid pace at the moment. Also the Linux Windows emulator WINE does make
steps forward and is expected to run major Windows applications (like
AmiPro) in the not-too-far future. The usefullness of executor has to be
re-evaluated at that stage of the game. 

I hope this short wrap-up helps anyone ...

Andreas

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 Andreas Schiffler  Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies (ISAS),
                    University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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