http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23797416-24169,00.html The new president of Red Hat, when asked about desktop linux, said: "My simple answer is until Apple's iTunes runs on consumer Linux desktops, it's not going to take off. I know you can run Wine, which runs Windows applications on Linux, so techies will beat me up on that, but fundamentally there are some major device driver issues with products that people like to use and this limits adoption. It's going to be slow until these issues are solved."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39429910,00.htm http://economyaustria.at/Text/?id=3363378 Vienna migrates some Linux workstations to Vista because a single app, Schlaumäuse, crashes under Wine. Looks like they send the software out upon request to teachers; see http://www.schlaumaeuse.de/ (Can somebody send me a copy?)