> 7. Lotus Notes
FYI - Lotus Notes is running under Linux today - I'm reading/writing this mail with it as we speak, courtesy of John Walicki's IBM Open Client for Linux (great job John!). It is probably not available to the general public yet (or being marketed as such?), and I cannot speak to the distribution/licensing issues that might be involved (John?), but in terms of 'porting' to Linux this app is already done.
- Gareth
Dr. Gareth S. Bestor
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John Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >
> Why not simply ask the ISVs? Why doesn't OSDL start another survey which
> asks all the big and small ISVs what the need to port their applications
> to Linux? Okay I'll start a list of questions for such a survey at
> "http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/OSDL_survey_for_ISVs".
> It might be a good idea to get some answers before the next DAM.
Good idea. And this is a great starting point for the next OSDL survey.
BTW, I just saw some results from a Novell survey that showed the top
apps that are needed for the desktop. The results did not show email
clients or browsers, so these are probably "good enough". Rather, they
listed...
1. Quickbooks
2. Autocad
3. Photoshop
4. Itunes
5. Dreamweaver
6. Visio
7. Lotus Notes
8. Quicken
9. Macromedia Studio
10. Act!
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/16798.html
Please just use this as information and lets not fuel the discussion
about market share and major vs minor ISV targets. We've probably
beaten that to death.
On a related note, is anyone aware of a place where users could go to
find open source alternatives to these applications? I'm not talking
about googling for projects or scanning the open source foundries, but a
place where a user could just find a Quickbooks or Autocad replacement?
>
> 6. People using the linux desktop
> > on the other hand, there are a non-negligible number of people using
> the linux
> > desktop now. apparently they number in the millions if the 1-5%
> market share
> > numbers are to be believed.
> >
> You might remember that above 50% of the participants in the survey have
> Linux deployed while still requesting none-Linux applications. Since
> most of you don't believe my conclusions, it might be a good idea to ask
> these users "why" in another survey (see
> http://wyoguide.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/OSDL_survey_for_users).
Ditto.
John
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