Paul Johnson wrote: > My understanding is this is a vocal minority decreasing in size as > more good, free software comes out. You are thinking perhaps of of office productivity software? > Proprietary software is sort of a band-aid for a real solution, or a > toy for after work. "A toy for after work", like a game? Hahaha! That is a good one. Check out these two prominant, non-oracle examples. Both high profile chip design software companies. And they don't come cheap. You won't see any prices there. Ever eat in a restaurant with no prices on the menu? It's kind'a like that. These are fairly representative of my corporate world. http://www.cadence.com/support/computing/32bit.aspx http://www.synopsys.com/products/platforms_roadmap.html Interesting, rarely do companies like these deliver rpms. Instead they usually have custom installation scripts for their tar files. This comes because they install on HP-UX and Solaris well before being ported to our favorite system. Bob
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