During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement. "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista."
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Member since:2006-03-07
If RedHat wanted Adobe software on Linux, its just a matter of paying Adobe a visit...
No, it's not. If that's all there was to it, do you really think Apple would have shipped the Intel Macs up to a year before native versions of Photoshop and Illustrator will be released for it?
Member since:2005-07-02
Bullshit; If RedHat wanted Adobe software on Linux, its just a matter of paying Adobe a visit, offer a proposition of Red Hat carrying half the development costs, if need be, and provide some other incentives.
You obviously have no idea how software development works. First, it wouldn't be a matter of porting the program to "RedHat" but rather to the *nix platform as a whole. The one thing they would have to decide would be which toolkit to use (Adobe might go with Qt, since they've used it before, or opt for a neutral one like OpenOffice).
But it's certainly not up to RedHat, or any single distro, to approach a company like Adobe. It doesn't happen like this for Windows, it doesn't hapen like this for OS X, it didn't happen like this for any commercial program already available for Linux. The only thing that matters is perceived demand vs. production costs, as well as strategic alliances with Apple and/or Microsoft.
Member since:2005-11-14
Just for the record, Adobe would probably use GTK, since Adobe Reader 7 is already a GTK app. A pretty badly programmed one, actually, and using a static and ancient version of gtk, but it's nonetheless a good starting point, I guess.
Out of curiosity, where did Adobe use QT?
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2005-07-06
Do you realize you're asking the wrong person? It's not up to RedHat to make the software available, it's up to the people making the software!
Bullshit; If RedHat wanted Adobe software on Linux, its just a matter of paying Adobe a visit, offer a proposition of Red Hat carrying half the development costs, if need be, and provide some other incentives.
Sitting on your ass whilst girating your finger up your hole isn't going to get things moving along on the desktop front - getting out of your office, and talking ISV's and creating partnerships will.