Re: W32.Winux virus on Linux machines

["S. Krishnan" <srinivasan_krishnan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Ruchir Tewari <ruchir_tewari@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: [LIG] W32.Winux virus on Linux machines


> good news ;-)  now the anti-virus folks will want to
> port their software to linux, people will want to pay for it,
> production quality application software will start seeing
> the light of day on linux. better debuggers and development
> environments will be on their way, as people need them enough
> to pay for them.
>
1. There are already enough commercial IDEs and development environments for
Linux, offered by
mainstream companies like Metrowerks and Borland/ Inprise.  About the only
company not in the
business, for obvious reasons, is Microsoft.

2. Pray do tell which of the Linux apps or suites that you use, apart from a
very few, are *not*
production quality.  Maybe you prefer IIS over Apache, or Microsoft's DNS
sever to Bind?  Or maybe
WIndows NT to Samba over Linux?  What do you have to say to the fact that
all the major RDBMS
systems - Oracle, Sybase, et al, are available?  The list could go on and
on......unless, of course you are
looking for Microsoft products ported to Linux!

> this may sound like heresy, but money does work it's own
> wonders :)
>
Actually, what you are propounding is not heresy - the sayings of heretics
generally have a modicum of sense.
IMHO, its just plain silly.  If you want pure commercial stuff, stick to
Windows,
or maybe a commercial UNIX, if you can find one on the x86
platform -remember, even Solaris ships with GCC :-)!

S. Krishnan