Mr O wrote:
the major operating systems (linux, OS X.3,4,5, M$ 2000, XP, Vista).
Don't count just those.
The software company I work for supports the following:
Windows NT 4.0 and up
Linux, Redhat and SuSE officially, but it runs on just about any
distribution we've tried.
Solaris 7.0 and up on Sparc, 10 on Intel.
HP-UX 11.0 and up on PA-Risc and Itanium
AIX 4.3 and up on PowerPC. AIX on S390 unofficially.
We've also been known to make it work on FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
I believe some of the developers have it running on their MacBook Pro
Core 2 Duo systems. But that's not official yet either.
My point is that SOME software companies DO support lots of OSes.
Unfortunately, it's a very expensive proposition to port code from one
platform to another, and businesses have to make a profit, or they don't
hang around.
Don't give me the OSS argument. We tried that... Our product was open
source at one time. It stagnated as an open source product, so it is
again proprietary.
Russ
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