Rich Shepard wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Tony Caduto wrote:
The reason there is no highly productive IDE for Linux/Mac with a nice
forms designer and robust data binding is because in the grand scheme of
things there are not a lot of desktop users for anything other than
win32. Sure there are lots of geeks that use Linux for their desktop,
but not
everyday users.
Hello? Where have you been the past few years? This is one of the most
amusing mis-statements I've read in a long time.
I know a software engineer with more than 25 years experience who works
with the KDE IDE for multi-language development, and he deploys these
applications on multiple platforms.
But, wait, ... you'd classify him with the geeks.
How about municiple workers in Munich, Germany? Are they not everyday
non-geeks? The city dumped Microsoft for linux a couple of years ago. So
havs Brazil, China, and a host of other countries. Many schools --
including
a large number in Oregon and Washington -- run linux for both students
and
administrators using the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP/K12).
Well, that's enough. If you look around you, you'll recognize how silly
that reads. At least, I hope that you do.
Rich
It's not silly, world wide the vast majority is still win32 and it's
over 90 percent.
Munich Germany is what 20,000 desktops? again small numbers in the
grand scheme of things.
Do you think companies like Adobe etc are going to port their win32 only
software for the Munich Germany users?
Can you name a significant number of LARGE corps that uses Linux
Desktops besides IBM or Novell?
I don't like M$ , but the cold hard fact of the matter is they still own
the desktop market and that's why
commercial companies like Adobe, Intuit etc don't write software for
Linux or other non windows desktops.
Also when I say everyday users I mean people at home, the moms, the
dads, the 8 year old kids etc etc
Go into any retail store and try and find commercial shrink wrapped
software, guess what there isn't any. (at least here in Milwaukee)
You will find a few Linux users here and there, for example the city of
Kenosha here in Wisconsin uses it a lot, Burlington Coat Factory uses
it, but in each of these cases they have not been able to fully switch
because some apps would not run on Linux.
If I go into almost any business/corp in the downtown Milwaukee area
they all us M$ products many do have Linux or FreeBSD servers, but they
are limited to things like email gateways, database servers etc.
Later,
--
Tony Caduto
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