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Re: [SLE] Wine on SuSE (and tax programs)
- From: "Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:03:11 -0500
- Message-id: <200401051203.11700.abrahams@xxxxxxx>
On Monday 05 January 2004 8:41 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The bottom line is that IMHO, Linux is ready for the desktop, but is
> lacking some of the major applications that are only available on
> Windows. Developers will port their products either to run natively or
> through WINE (compiled natively with WINE libraries) only when they
> perceive that there is a large enough (potential) market for their
> products.
Perhaps the WINE people will eventually be ambitious enough to make up a list
of critical apps (including at least one popular Windows tax program,
clearly) and get those to run. If Wine could run, say, TurboTax and
QuickBooks, Linux on the desktop would be a more feasible alternative for a
lot of folks.
Paul Abrahams
> The bottom line is that IMHO, Linux is ready for the desktop, but is
> lacking some of the major applications that are only available on
> Windows. Developers will port their products either to run natively or
> through WINE (compiled natively with WINE libraries) only when they
> perceive that there is a large enough (potential) market for their
> products.
Perhaps the WINE people will eventually be ambitious enough to make up a list
of critical apps (including at least one popular Windows tax program,
clearly) and get those to run. If Wine could run, say, TurboTax and
QuickBooks, Linux on the desktop would be a more feasible alternative for a
lot of folks.
Paul Abrahams
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