From: "Doug LaRue" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Message-Id: <200701301843.l0UIhiuC006206@ms-smtp-03.socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:43:44 -0800
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Reply-To: "Doug LaRue" <djlarue@attglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: OT: broadband connection issues
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** Reply to message from "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:13:32 -0700


> The cost of updating
> one of the clients (a  small church) to Vista is prohibitive when you factor in
> all the associated programs that will also need updating.  Office2000 to
> Office2007 for them is eye-watering!

And the reason they felt they NEEDED to upgrade to MS Vista is because? Is it
because there are people hanging from a building in NY holding an ad for 
MS Vista? ;-/   I would think that a $50 hardware firewall/router would be a
far better 'security' upgrade if they feel the need to run Microsoft software.
Or put MS Windows in a virtual machine / sandbox for required apps. And
now, with VirtualBox, they could even run OS/2 in a VM if there's software there
they could use.

The worth thing about this "new OS" is that customers will find it difficult to NOT
get the product on a new computer and that infection will cost extra. At the
very least, they'll have to pay to purchase and install the version/OS they are
currently standardized on. Can you say, 'thank you sir, may I have another'? :-/

Doug