Is Linux a desktop operating system?

Christoph Georgi christoph.georgi at web.de
Thu May 26 09:36:27 UTC 2005



hagen van rissenbeck wrote:
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> 
> Yes, that's true. Software development is often restricted to a specific
> platform. Changing the dlls or the programming languages would be a
> really strong problem and a risk. The programmers have to learn the new
> tool or the enterprise needs new programmers.

There's a lot of fuzz about Middleware these days.. Wouldn't that be a 
good solution for the incompatibility/porting problems?

<snip>
> 
> Nevertheless, it is possible to develop platform independent. But
> sometimes, software developers do not actually want to see  the sense,
> from my point of view. It seems to me that software-makers try to hold
> their consumers on their products. They don't want them to migrate in
> any case. It's not a question of linux, it's a question of competition
> between proprietairy software makers.

Why would software developers want to hold customers just on Microsoft 
and not offer their solution for any platform? I would see that as an 
unique selling point?!

christoph

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