Kai Blin schrieb:
On Friday 06 June 2008 15:11:34 Dan Kegel wrote:
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?)
To quote from the zdnet report:
[quote] The software maker behind the Schlaumäuse software is planning a Firefox version for 2009, according to Ringler, who pointed out in the report that the city could have subsidised a Firefox version of the software for a fraction of the cost of the Windows Vista migration. [/quote]
Given that they didn't even bother to file a bug report or add an appdb entry, that sounds pretty fishy. I know that there's been a couple of bug reports and requested changes to Samba when Munich migrated to Windows. I don't see why any real user of Wine wouldn't at least file a bug report.
Overall it seems like Vienna is looking for reasons to back out of the Linux migration, perhaps in exchange for some goodies some big companies would donate in that case. Things like this have happened before.
also if schlaumäuse is only the lexicon, then I can say: it works with FF3. See http://www.schlaumaeuse.de/bildungsinitiative/lexikon.html click on the picture and a javascript will open a new window with the lexicon. It takes a while to load, but it seems to work.
bye Jochen