> Adobe alternatives: > http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/contentcreation/0,1000001068,39286832,00.htm > Homesite: http://www.osalt.com/nvu > MYOB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboCASH > Quicken: http://www.linux.com/articles/49400
See, I'm a recent Windows convert. I wasn't a fan of it, until I found an alternative few months ago that pleased me. That being Solaris. Now to the quote, no offense, did you actually use the actual applications and compared them to the alternatives you presented? Functionally and usability-wise, the open source equivalents are jokes. Just last night I was about to get a s%&# fit about GIMP, because while trying to be a Photoshop clone, it's being completely obnoxious about it and introduces me to semantics that make absolutely no sense in a editing and designing context. While I can easily cope with issues like that and grudgingly adapt (after all, my computer skills come from trial and erroring since I was 7 years old), someone else may just be annoyed and go back to good old Windows and the actual professional applications. Part of the gaining users is also having the big apps available. Something that isn't the case today, not even with Linux. I suppose, e.g. the Adobe applications can be very easily ported, considering MacOSX is BSD and as such probably able to compile on Solaris/Linux without much troubles, and that the Creative Suite uses a custom windowing kit ported to both Windows and MacOSX, that could aswell be ported to X11. Maybe this is a venue for Sun to try pushing some big apps onto their platform. Personally, I'm going as far as running Windows in QEMU, and some RDP hacks when I feel like I need the apps on the desktop, to use various kindof-lightweight applications, like the Microsoft Office suite. -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
