On Saturday 18 January 2003 21:53, Craig White wrote:

4th paragraph on first page:

"It is also conceivable that most of these open source applications can b=
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used on Microsoft Windows OS platform. Apache, MySQL, PHP, perl etc. can =
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be used within Microsoft Windows. While I am not eager to make this a wor=
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model, it will offer us a backup plan if we were to run into a roadblock =
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that I forsee anything representing a substantial problem)."

I see this as a huge opening for an MS enthusiast to say "then what do we=
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Linux for."  I can see that you want to show a backup plan exists and tha=
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Open Source exists for the Windows platform.  However, I would word the l=
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sentence so something like:

"However, Linux is a well known, stable platform for these applications a=
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has none of the licensing costs that would be required for operation on a=
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Microsoft OS."

Feel free to use that quote as you will.  Or not.

Alan

PS Still reading through the rest.