Well, Evolution is by far the crown jewel. Ximian Desktop has potential. I haven't tried the newest version. I abandoned the previous because it didn't import menus from Gnome. Basically, you lost your menus which sucked. To say it will go the way of DRDOS and Wordperfect is abit much, though. Ximian just isn't as pervasive as either of those apps. So if Ximian Desktop dropped off the radar tomorrow it would hardly make any waves industry-wide. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a product with great potential, but it's hardly pervasive. <<JAV>> ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Rick Warner <rwarner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: 04 Aug 2003 13:28:04 -0700 Subject: Re: Novell buys Ximian > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 12:57, Martin Stricker wrote: > > Marco Fioretti wrote: > > > > > > http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/08/pr03051.html > > > > So Ximian goes the same way as DRDOS and WordPerfect... :-((( > > > > Best regards, > > Martin Stricker > > I fail to see any similarity. DRDOS was purchased by Caldera > specifically so they could use it as the basis of a lawsuit against MS. > After the suit was settled, there was no reason to keep it, but in > the intervening period it was released as OpenDOS and you could download > the source code. By the time Caldera bought DRDOS there was no > market left for DOS. Are you implying Novell should have continued > sinking money into a product no one wanted other than to leverage a > legal case against MS? > > WordPerfect, after bumbling its way into the WinTel world, got batted > around until it landed at Corel. Once MS bought a piece of Corel and > made noise about helping Corel get back on its feet, Corel made > decisions unfavorable to the continued life of the product. Novell > was never an apps house, Corel was a better fit for WP. > Unfortunately the product was all but dead by the time they got it, > and MS getting into the mix was a deal clincher. It would have > been market shift for Novell to try to build an apps unit, much less > to try to breathe life into an all but dead product. > > Ximian is a different story in a lot of ways. The desktop is > probably the least important piece of Ximian for Novell. > > - rick > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list ------- End of Original Message ------- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
