On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:29 PM, David Boyes wrote:
There are only three products on Windows that I cannot easily
replace.
One is Intuit's Quicken (GNUCash is just too difficult). The
second is Intuit's TurboTax with eFiling. The last is Visio
(which is now owned by MS <blech>).
It's interesting that these three products are exactly the ones I
can't
live without. I wonder if Intuit ever hears about that, or can free
themselves from MS enough to do so.
It would seem that writing a good object-oriented drawing tool to
replace Visio shouldn't be *that* hard. The trick would be being
able to
read the symbol libraries that exist for Visio...
Dia already is a reasonable Visio replacement. The trick is being
able to import Visio files. *NOTHING* can do that, and there's a
large bounty out for whomever manages to handle the file format.
Even the converter for the Mac product ConceptDraw requires a running
Windows box and uses Windows DLLs and the Visio player to do some
semigluteal magic that actually doesn't work well either.
Adam
