There are still functions that I need for school reports that I have not found in Koffice or Open Office. Adobe Photoshop can be simulated but it is a kludge. I can't find anything like a recent or complete version of spice. My version of xine tends to pause every once in a while. Is there a quickbooks like app that is well supported?Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:18:15 -0600 On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:42:26 -0500 Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most linux apps just aren't up to their windoze counterparts. This is especially true for personal productivity apps. The server stuff is much closer.
It would help to know exactly what you mean by "personal productivity apps".
Personal productivity apps, to me, are the horizontal apps that any business person would use for documents to spreadsheets all the way to the business/department specific functions that users would run in the course of a typical week ON THEIR PERSONAL MACHINE.
every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it. Then the executive goes away, until next time.
All of this is true, but companies have to deal with the (negative)
business payoff of loosing business productivity and/or data every time
a script kiddo comes up with a new worm. There is a also big business
payoff in terms of licensing fees.
even Microsoft has been cured of this churn of API's and standards (I know they do have relapses but they are learning to kick the habit.)
The only true option to pursue for linux desktop adoption is to
continue interoperability plans with the M$ network du jour (com, dcom, .net...) and start building functionality into linux friendly architectures. It requires long term thinking and a dedication to the
strategy. It also requires better personal productivity apps.
One thing that would help (I've mentioned this frequently) would be for the major open source support products (glibc, gcc, and the desktop products like kde and gnome, perhaps even the kernel) to stop the practice of changing the interfaces and releasing non-compatible new versions every couple of years.
There is a dearth of long term thinking in the business world. How to cook the books for the current quarter is about as long term as it gets.
<Bingo!>
-- Alma
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