Re: [SLUG] wine

[Jon Biddell <jon@nospam.fl.net.au>]

At 05:45 PM 6/14/00, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:03:26PM +1000, Jon Biddell (jon@nospam.fl.net.au) wrote:
> >
> > >and goddamnit, it worked like a charm (or curse, or something)
> > >
> > >  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gusl/winword.jpg  (warning: big image)
> >
> > Ah, it does my heart good to see Word running as the Gods intended it 
> to....:-)
>
>...... and Willie will smirk to in delight to see how many unix boffins trying
>to run his software on Linux.

Yes, that is a fairly sobering thought - well, at least I have my copy of 
Orifice 2000 up for sale on sold.com.au...:-)


>Furthermore I am actaully not convinced it WinForLinux (and all the other 
>programs
>which can run win applications on linux) will be good for linux.
>
>Remeber OS/2. It failed (bitterly) because no one wrote applications for it
>as it had an *INBUILT* windooze shell.

I remember it only too well - and have a copy of it sitting on the "goods, 
for the sale of" shelf behind me..!!


>I dont believe it will help the cause f Linux if we continuously try to
>run Win applications on Linux.

It's a bit of a catch 22, unfortunately - <dons flame-proof suit> - there 
are a number of (from an end-user perspective) good desktop applications 
for EvilWare that can be run in this manner (NetObjects Fusion, Organizer, 
certain custom-built apps that we run). Until the time / effort / $$$ are 
invested to port these to Linux in native format (and a lot of our 
custom-apps are VB programs, unfortunately), then WINE / EvilWare emulation 
is at least one way to maybe get some users convinced of the validity of 
the Linux desktop.

>Go to the applications developpers instead and ask them to develop for
>Linux, eg I just rang Lotus to tell them I would buy 22 Lotus Smartsuite
>if they develop it for Linux (they know I use it as they have me on their
>database but currently I have a bunch f NT machines .......).

I'm in exactly the same boat - I have 15 NT servers, 5 Netware and 2 
HP9000's that I manage - the only saving grace is that I can do shit 
remotely using Citrix Metaframe under Linux, so don't really have a need 
for NT as such.

Jon

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