Buchan Milne wrote:
I know one company that make very heavy use of multimedia apps, to create presentations for selling thier stage / set designs. the company owner has told me that as soon as viable options for multimedia exist for linux they will review their os decision.On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Michael Scherer wrote:The point is Mandrake wants to make money, therefore they need bigger install base, therefore they need to make windows users transfer to linux, therefore what keeps windows users from using linux, therefore try to imagine what do we need to add or change.If you want to do money, i think it is better to aims at the small enterprise market. Therefore, there is no need for all these fancy multimedia application.Some real businesses need multi-media. We do (animations from simulations). In fact, that's probably one of the big reasons we don't make more use of OpenOffice, and have to use Powerpoint for some presentations. And we're not even a multi-media company. Buchan
the majority of businesses need some sort of multimedia application for the "sales" end of the business. to sell thier product / service.
specially the "small enterprise market" as they don't have the finances to pay an advertising firm.
