On 11/9/06, Keith Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretty simple economics actually. Most people use Windows. Fact of life. > That's where you concentrate your development. How many Linux IDEs would > Adobe sell right now? Enough to justify the engineering efforts? Maybe > someday, but not quite yet.
You're right, of course, but the thought I have is this: How can they know what the Linux market share would be if their products were available for Linux? Their users obviously can't migrate to Linux for lack of Linux versions, and those who do migrate can't be their users any more for the same reason. When I ask people what keeps them from switching, "Photoshop and Illustrator" is what they say (I know too many designers...). So, it could be that Linux versions would sell nicely. Maybe Adobe did some market research that told them it wouldn't. Who knows. Of course, if they can save the extra cost and force users to run either Windows or OSX, it makes sense to keep it as it is. Linux sales won't help if they'd be on the cost of lost Windows/OSX sales. If they decide to do Linux versions, my guess is it would be a strategic decision to strengthen Linux in general, but I doubt it would get any chairs flying in Redmond. Ah, well. Let's hope Xara will be ported soon: <http://xarax.org/> Mark _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
