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Weblog:   To push desktop Linux, radical shift may be required
Subject:   What's the business model for apps developers?
Date:   2003-11-16 13:29:14
From:   dkurman
I manage a corporate network and played out the scenario of migrating to Linux.
It isn't the OS, the utilities or the Office suites as much as the specialized business software. Software like CAD and vertical apps. When I talk with some of these vendors they say they can't afford to give it away. They need a return on the effort spent developing and maintaining the software.
These developers have the perception that Linux/Open Source is about free software. They said it is hard enough managing piracy in the Windows environment.
Because we need this software for our business over 95% of the desktops must remain Windows.
...WINE and vmware do not help...I tried.
Could this also affect games on Linux?