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Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 71.131.187.69]
on September 21, 2008 02:28 AM
By the way, Innuit's (and Adobe's and the other companies) excuse for not developing Linux versions is simple - Linux has three percent of the market. This is why FOSS developers need to match or exceed Innuit's (and Adobe's and the other companies) products in order to allow Linux to have apps that match the commercial apps on Windows. Then and only then will Linux get on corporate desktops.
Linux CANNOT go the way Windows went. Windows got on desktops because Microsoft started when UNIX cost $20,000. Windows was cheaper, and it got on the desktops, then starting migrated on to the servers because the desktops had this proprietary OS on them that needed a proprietary server backing them up. For FOSS to undo that, it needs to take over the server market - which it is doing well at - and THEN take over the desktop by developing desktop apps that are as good or better than Windows commercial apps but which use the standard server infrastructure that Linux supports, instead of the proprietary infrastructure Windows server support. In other words instead of trying to take over the desktop first like Windows did, Linux needs to take over the server market, then take over the desktop when corporations start realizing that running a Linux server supporting standards-based infrastructure is better than running a proprietary infrastructure. Linux is doing well at the server market, and as a certain amount of Internet-based computing starts to take hold, it should do even better. But the desktop needs to leverage Linux servers to produce desktop apps that are as good as or better than Windows apps.
There are some pretty good Exchange Server drop-in replacements, and some pretty good Outlook replacements. Most of them are commercial, such as Zarafa that just went open source. Exchange is one of the big holdouts for corporate WIndows users. Get that and Outlook off the corporate desktop and things will be much better for Linux. But we still need replacements for PhotoShop, QuickBooks, Premiere and the like.
And OpenOffice needs to find a way to run Microsoft Office macros and somebody needs to do a Visual Basic for Applications port to Linux. Forget Mono - we need VBA! That way, all that custom VBA code and Excel macros can be ported to OpenOffice! Until that's done, Microsoft Office is not going anywhere!
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 71.131.187.69] on September 21, 2008 02:28 AMLinux CANNOT go the way Windows went. Windows got on desktops because Microsoft started when UNIX cost $20,000. Windows was cheaper, and it got on the desktops, then starting migrated on to the servers because the desktops had this proprietary OS on them that needed a proprietary server backing them up. For FOSS to undo that, it needs to take over the server market - which it is doing well at - and THEN take over the desktop by developing desktop apps that are as good or better than Windows commercial apps but which use the standard server infrastructure that Linux supports, instead of the proprietary infrastructure Windows server support. In other words instead of trying to take over the desktop first like Windows did, Linux needs to take over the server market, then take over the desktop when corporations start realizing that running a Linux server supporting standards-based infrastructure is better than running a proprietary infrastructure. Linux is doing well at the server market, and as a certain amount of Internet-based computing starts to take hold, it should do even better. But the desktop needs to leverage Linux servers to produce desktop apps that are as good as or better than Windows apps.
There are some pretty good Exchange Server drop-in replacements, and some pretty good Outlook replacements. Most of them are commercial, such as Zarafa that just went open source. Exchange is one of the big holdouts for corporate WIndows users. Get that and Outlook off the corporate desktop and things will be much better for Linux. But we still need replacements for PhotoShop, QuickBooks, Premiere and the like.
And OpenOffice needs to find a way to run Microsoft Office macros and somebody needs to do a Visual Basic for Applications port to Linux. Forget Mono - we need VBA! That way, all that custom VBA code and Excel macros can be ported to OpenOffice! Until that's done, Microsoft Office is not going anywhere!
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