Or maybe just because of it, there is a need for commercial support,
or
somebody might need that support. If it would be running, by just
clicking on the executable, no support is really needed, at least not
for standard applications.
IBM does very well know the existents of Wine (they even acknowledged
that by themselves lately), but may very well not support it, because
of inter-relation with MS. As of now (just a guess), they don't want to
get into more hot water right now....
gslink wrote:
Go to the
Wine HQ site and click on applications database. If you need more
applications check the listed links.
This is a problem with every development effort and nobody is blaming
anybody. The larger the effort the worse it gets. This is probably
the worst problem both Microsoft and IBM have with code. If you change
anything in Wine something somewhere will probably quit running. This
is simply the price of progress. My comment, and it is not a
criticism, is that Wine still has rough edges. Eventually these will
go away but for now, you can't simply load Wine into Linux and blindly
start loading in applications. The more complex the application the
more likely it needs setup. As versions progress setup procedures
change and as a result things quit running. Microsoft Office doesn't
run without setup and neither do many of the older games such as Alice
or Rune. Even things like Warcraft come and go. This is not a
criticism it is just the way things are and that is why I think it is
too early to start thinking about commercial support.
What somebody needs to do now is to get a relationship with IBM similar
to the one that Eclipse has. IBM has a problem currently because there
is no native Lotus Notes client for Linux. Wine could easily solve
this problem. I talked to some of the marketing managers in IBM and
most had never heard of Wine. The IBM development labs are currently
starting to develop this native client. If IBM could use Wine it could
save them money and sueing Wine is one thing sueing IBM is another.
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