On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:55:45PM +0530, jtd wrote: > Somone on the list is running tally under wine.
Version 7.2 anyone? Without using the windows partition? > > > 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Autocad etc. > Fully paid versions?. Now dont turn the arg around and say same price > as the linux equiv. Thats not my problem. If they have no inclination for linux equivalents, I can't force it down their throats. I have mentioned earlier that piracy is killing FOSS. > > > > 5) Accounting and invoice packages available in the trader market > > > are M$ based. > > Off the shelf?. How many run customised packages. Large numbers that i > know of. Large numbers of what? All my clients use windows based software packages. > > > 6) Ticketing softwares for travel agents are windows based. > > Package names pls. Let see if it's economically viable to do some > middleware for a sutable client. Amedius (spelling?), can't recollect the others. > > > > 7) Most file sharing softwares for songs are M$ based and many > > > live song sites run only on IE. > VLC can connect to almost any server and play any format including WMA > (ahem with M$ codecs). Active X ? > > > > 8) Some third party documentation softwares use MS Office as the > > > export destination and anyway they are for the windows platform. > specify pls. Will find out. The client has XP legal and OO but that software wants MS Office. The client was enquiring about its price. I will see if OO can suffice. > > > > 9) Most of the popular games are M$ based. > > Agreed. But we play fun games like bashing the shell or killall apache > and the rear mount and unmount while fscking. Killbill is boring > since hes doing it all by himself. > I serve the client, I cannot tell him this. My rear will get rear mounted. :-D > > But you need to agree > > that KDE and GNOME still have a long way before they can become as > > userfriendly as Windows UI. > > Ruuubbissssh. > Read my earlier post on kids and comps. > How many of the kids changed their file associations with different applications? What you experimented IMHO was the 'intutiveness' of an environment but with regular users who have their hands set on an OS, the equation is different. Siddesh P has explained it nicely in his mail describing 3 different types of users. Philip has rightly explained in his earlier mail about 'user testing' of environments and how Linux lags behind in this area. Regards, Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
