Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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In theory, it might (and that's a big might) be possible to use the Visual Basic to VB.NET source code translators that VS.NET provides (I'm pretty sure there's some tool out there that does it), and then re-compile on Mono once their winforms implementation matures. Of course there will be problems, but crossover could be a temporary solution until the developers get things worked out. At least they're not rewriting all of their code.