On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:38 am, Rowling, Jill wrote: > But I suspect you are thinking about office software. > Really there is a lot of software available if your sales reps just took > the time to find out what their customers really wanted rather than trying > to push something onto them. > Gently invite them to use a search engine, and search for a generic > description of the item rather than a brand name.
It's more that they want to assist one of our customers promote Linux as a real desktop alternative (we're the middle-man). To help them, they just want to know what sort of companies are actively supporting Linux as a platform, and what sort of commercially recognisable software is in the desktop market space. They would love to be able to say "Quark" or "Adobe Photoshop" etc, is ported to Linux.... but satan will probably be playing ice hockey by the time either of those defect from the dark side. :P James -- A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
