Ian Would you give me a list of those education programs. Perhaps we can try and see what they think. Either, we can talk to them, or see if we can find someone to port it, usually its not so hard to get them to move software to linux, you just have to remind the company, that just because of a move to linux, it doesn't mean they have to give there software away for free, Ive found many people that look at linux and say "what a great idea" to bad if we want to go to it we have to make our product free.
Regards Exavier Scott --- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What Linux at the desktop needs is a niche market > with a visible presence so > that there is density of desktops highly visible in > that niche. We are > working on this in UK education but its early days. > There needs to be > focussed effort on applications that do the things > that the end users in that > market want, and do it cheaper and better. Education > here is price sensitive > so lower costs get a foot in the door - its Linux or > nothing not Linux or MS > - so the fact that it can't do everything is not > vital. Once we get a > critical mass there is the chance that education > software companies will port > their applications. When that happens there really > is no argument. When you > have proved the case in one vertical market its > possible to move to another > eg small businesses. What a new distro needs is > focus. There is sufficient > support for many generic applications - perhaps too > much effort going into > office type applications when open office and star > office are the main means > of competing with MS. Developing a new WP is a lot > less useful than say a DP > packaged clone of MS publisher or a Front Page > clone. Ok both of these are > poor products to a purist, but our customers want > them so in the end they are > more strategically important than yet another WP. > The priority of the > applications should be determined by the strategic > niche market to maximise > the chances of that market generating the critical > mass of user required to > give confidence to desktop Linux. > > Regards, > > -- > Ian > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
