Win98 -- all kidding aside

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 08:39 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Mario Spinthiras wrote:
> > Scrap vmware. Try Sun's Virtualbox. It even has a native deb package for 
> > hardy.
> 
> Blanket statements don't help much.  Why is that your opinion?
> 
> I've been using VMware's Workstation (need the commercial features for work) 
> and have been nothing less than happy with it.
> 
> > P.S why would you want to use windows in linux? Sounds rather strange 
> > don't you think?
> 
> Not at all.  One of my employers requires me to use Outlook connected to an 
> Exchange server.  Additionally, they require a Nortel Contivity VPN 
> connection and only supply the Windows Contivity client.
> 
> There can be reasons to run MS products.
> 
well, imho and as ed said, some people need to run windows because some
of the programs that they absolutely need to use simply wont run in
linux. So thats why some people will sometimes use windows ontop of
linux.

--cj