On Friday 19 May 2006 06:32 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 18 May 2006 17:47, Rony wrote: *snip*
If linux gives better security and stability they are willing to change their OS, subject to all their regular work being executed in linux too with full migration of data. This is something not possible as of now. some examples are:-
- Banking websites insist on using IE.
- BOLT and other share trading softwares are available for M$
only. 3) Tally does not have a replacement in linux and its data cannot be ported to any other equivalent linux based software that works just like it.
Somone on the list is running tally under wine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Some third party documentation softwares use MS Office as the
export destination and anyway they are for the windows platform.
specify pls.
- 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.
kudos rony! You hit the nail on the head :) 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.
-- Dinesh A. Joshi