I've been thinking about how to boost Wine adoption among organizations that are considering migrating their desktops from Windows to Linux. It seems like the place Wine could have the most impact is at sites which have just one crucial Windows app which is keeping them from migrating So I'm thinking about compiling a list of these keystone apps, starting a little informal QA of Wine using them, and filing reproducible bugs in the winehq bugzilla.
Does anyone have suggestions for apps to consider for that list? I'm looking for semispecialized apps that haven't gotten much attention from Wine to date, and that have free demo versions or have vendors willing to provide copies of their Windows apps for QA under Wine. I'll probably focus on one to three such apps, since my time's pretty limited.
For example, I ran into such an app while volunteering at a 500-member church. Just about the time I was starting to think about moving them to Linux, they bought a package called "Church Windows", and quickly became completely dependent upon it. There are probably three or so apps in the "church management" category that, if supported by Wine, would enable thousands of churches to consider migrating to Linux.
Perhaps some of you who have worked at churches/schools/nonprofits/companies can chime in here...
Thanks, Dan
Related links for church management software: http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2003/09/0617.html http://www.rmcumc.org/CR/computer/ http://www.united-church.ca/it/software/ http://associate.com/camsoc/crs/ http://www.capterra.com/church-management-software http://www.neumc.org/page.asp?TableName=oPages_6KF3UU&PKValue=82 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7653
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