On Friday 19 May 2006 06:32 am, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 17:47, Rony wrote: > *snip* > > > If linux gives better security and stability they are > > willing to change their OS, subject to all their regular work > > being executed in linux too with full migration of data. This is > > something not possible as of now. some examples are:- > > > > 1) Banking websites insist on using IE. > > 2) BOLT and other share trading softwares are available for M$ > > only. 3) Tally does not have a replacement in linux and its data > > cannot be ported to any other equivalent linux based software > > that works just like it. Somone on the list is running tally under wine.
> > 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Autocad etc. Fully paid versions?. Now dont turn the arg around and say same price as the linux equiv. > > 5) Accounting and invoice packages available in the trader market > > are M$ based. Off the shelf?. How many run customised packages. Large numbers that i know of. > > 6) Ticketing softwares for travel agents are windows based. Package names pls. Let see if it's economically viable to do some middleware for a sutable client. > > 7) Most file sharing softwares for songs are M$ based and many > > live song sites run only on IE. VLC can connect to almost any server and play any format including WMA (ahem with M$ codecs). > > 8) Some third party documentation softwares use MS Office as the > > export destination and anyway they are for the windows platform. specify pls. > > 9) Most of the popular games are M$ based. Agreed. But we play fun games like bashing the shell or killall apache and the rear mount and unmount while fscking. Killbill is boring since hes doing it all by himself. > kudos rony! You hit the nail on the head :) But you need to agree > that KDE and GNOME still have a long way before they can become as > userfriendly as Windows UI. Ruuubbissssh. Read my earlier post on kids and comps. > > -- > Dinesh A. Joshi -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
