On Monday 12 June 2006 09:00, Mike Hearn wrote: > On 6/12/06, Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why don't we all go and ask them what the top inhibitors are to > > > migrate to an open source desktop? > > Migrations I've seen (can't really talk about who they are of course) > hit problems with things like: > > * Wanting (in one case, needing) to run Outlook w/ Exchange. I do not > know why Evolution was not an acceptable replacement, but it wasn't. > It ran on Wine but would occassionally hang, about once a week or so, > and this was deemed too unreliable. > > * Internet Explorer specific internal web apps > > * Custom Windows apps or apps where the open source equivalents are > not good enough
... and this is why we're concentrating on ISV issues. and not just closed source ISV issues but general "people writing code for the open source desktop" issues (c.f. the musings to create a dev portal). we can find work-arounds in the meantime (e.g. vmware running windows, wine) but in the end nothing will beat native apps that Do What's Needed. > * End user resistance .... yes, people are risk adverse and "new" equates to "risky". other than building a large number of success cases that turn into both published use cases and word-of-mouth recommendations there's probably not a whole lot we can do here. this is as much, or more, of a public relations issue than anything else. > Well clearly these are not going to be the only problems, but in the > biased samples I saw they were significant. i'll just say it mirrors what i've seen as well. -- Aaron J. Seigo Undulate Your Wantonness GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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