Novell is running a survey on which applications people are most interested in getting ported to Linux. With enough votes, they'll take the highest ranked ones and present the results to the companies, hopefully in persuading them to consider that there is a market. You can read a preliminary report, or take the survey yourself.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Why? It can be done, just because you don't think so doesn't change that. As it is now many of these applications can be run in CrossOverOffice, if winelib was improved they could even be compiled for windows, and then linked to winelib for distribution in Linux with little modification.
Novell has money to make changes with, and even if they don't at least the idea is good. Might as well try and see what happens than not try at all and never get any results.
Member since:2005-07-06
Why? It can be done, just because you don't think so doesn't change that.
Just because you think so, it doesn't change the economics of what is actually going to make those software vendors port to Linux. There's no installed base, no market and the technology is not up to snuff.
Novell has money to make changes with
Oh right. So they're going to throw money at these ISVs to port their applications? Silly me. Of course it's going to work.
Member since:
2005-07-06
...but dream on.