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On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:03:11 -0500
"Paul W. Abrahams"
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. I've been told that QuickBooks runs under CrossoverOffice. I have QuickBooks on order for BostonUsergroups, and I'll try to remember to report my success or lack of it.
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Jerry Feldman