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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Posted May 26, 2006 17:53 UTC (Fri) by hansl (subscriber, #5086)In reply to: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) by einstein Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)
> Wine is a neat hack, but it's important to see the big picture,
Sure, there is life after Wine. There's also life after Linux in
> Native linux apps must be written, and vendors must get familiar
Sure, and how do you expect "vendors" (don't forget most software
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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 21:03 UTC (Fri) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] >Sure, and how do you expect "vendors" (don't forget most software is written in-house) to such justify such an investment? When there are no Linux users?
no linux users?
hello? you do realize where you are posting, right?
You are asking for justification for a vendor's investment in basic linux competency? Why ask me? Either a vendor wants to be a player in the marketplace or they don't. Oracle and others figured it out some time ago.
Back to the main point - in the long run, the linux API will either get developer mindshare, or it will languish in obscurity. Depending on hand me down windows software is not a viable long term strategy. Even if we could forget about the possibility of microsoft bringing a DMCA style legal challenge against wine, do you suppose linux will ever get any truly excellent software if nobody ever writes to the linux API? Do we really want to depend on crumbs from the win32 table as a key strategy moving forward?
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 26, 2006 21:22 UTC (Fri) by hansl (subscriber, #5086) [Link] > no linux users?
Exactly. My girlfriend is only a Linux user because I was able
See? It's not about Oracle. These programs will not get ported,
She *is* a Linux user (no Windows license needed), so in the end
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted Jun 1, 2006 18:56 UTC (Thu) by kamil (subscriber, #3802) [Link] Didn't Dutch tax office release a Linux version of their software for 2005? I thought I saw it at their website...
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted Sep 10, 2006 18:02 UTC (Sun) by Wrosmo (guest, #40426) [Link] How did you get IKEA Kitchen Planner to work with wine?
I am using IKEA KP version 2007 and wine 0.9.17 and it installs but won't run.
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted Jun 7, 2006 9:21 UTC (Wed) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link] no linux users?Yes, but that's no reason to close the eyes in front of reality. Picassa is a desktop application for generic users, and in this target audience there are only a miniscule amount of Linux users. (Engineering applications is another matter.) That missing market makes it hard to spend the budget. Either a vendor wants to be a player in the marketplace or they don't. Oracle and others figured it out some time ago.That's a strawman, and a bad one at that. Oracle doesn't play in the generic users desktop market, that's server market. And there Linux got a foothold due to applications like netfilter, Apache, and free DBMSes, (i.e., LAMP) where no application existed with the same functionality or with an adequate price tag. After the Linux servers were already there (and because of the free DBMSes) Oracle and other ISVs decided that there is a market and one can develop for it. But that's not the case for the desktop market. There is no application in sight that is good enough that generic desktop users switch to Linux just to use it, as it was with LAMP for the servers, creating a market that's relevant enough for ISVs. Cheers, Joachim
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