Unless you're hosting those web applications in-house on a corporate web server, I don't think you want to bet your company's productivity on the internet. Last month, some nitwit next to our office building cut off our T1 connection while digging up a new construction site. It took our incompetent phone company two whole days to get us back up and going. If we had the web model, everyone in our company would be off work for two whole days. Hmmm...may not have been a bad thing. ;P I just don't think it's reliable enough for business environments either.

Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: When it recognized my palm and ipod automatically I almost fell out of my chair. :laugh::laugh::laugh: I know what you mean! Unfortunately, most of us Windows folks have a preconception of Linux as a geeky, hard-to-use OS. But I was really impressed by what I saw.

I did install Ubuntu, but being a complete Linux noob, I had a heck of a time getting it to work with a printer connected to an XP machine. Finally gave up and went off in search of an alternative. :(( However, I have to agree that it is very easy to install. In fact, Ubuntu's disk partition tool has rescued me a few times during my test installations with various other distros.

I actually burnt a CD of Mepis and tried out the LiveCD version (I remember thinking it was really nice), but never got around to installing it. Probably due to bias, cause I think I've already decided on Xandros at the time. I still work on Windows most of the time too, but beginning to enjoy my Linux box as well while I'm learning PHP/MySQL on it.

Just out of curiosity, which distro did you install? Having been a Windows person my whole life, I just took the plunge myself into the Linux world about two months ago. I installed and uninstalled a bunch of them, from Fedora to Ubuntu to Zenwalk, before finally settling on Xandros because it was the most Windows-like and easiest to connect to my Windows network and printer (I guess it wasn't that big of a plunge after all). Therefore, I was just wondering how you picked your distro.

Is idiot a name? Not that I am, but would I be name calling if I were to call you that? Or would it be considered "factual"? ;P

It worked fine for me. Tested it on Win98SE and Win2K.

upsdude wrote: Furthermore, that license fee only happens if you're making a profit; otherwise, it goes away. That's not true. According to LMI's sublicense fee page (http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.html), you pay $200 even if you do not make a profit.

Non-Profit Tier Annual Fee = US$200 For Profit/Other Tier 1 [This is a "grandfather clause" for written sublicenses executed prior to August 1, 2004] Annual Fee = $0 For Profit/Other Tier 2 [Total projected annual gross revenue between zero and US $100,000] Annual Fee = US $200 For Profit/Other Tier 3 [Total projected annual gross revenue between US $100,000 and US$200,000] Annual Fee = US $500 For Profit/Other Tier 4 [Total projected annual gross revenue between US $200,000 and US $1 million] Annual Fee = US $1000 For Profit/Other Tier 5 [Total projected annual gross revenue over US $1 million] Annual Fee = US $5000