Dreamweaver Equiv

[Odd]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:20:14 +0100
> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
> 
>> Have you told Adobe that? The more people let them know,
>> the better the odds.
> 
> I didn't, as it's so obvious to them. They are very much clued about
> Linux, they can't possibly ignore that DW has no real Linux
> "competitor". Adove does move towards Linux progressively. They are
> clearly interested in the Linux market in the general sense, if their
> recent claim to want Linux users to enjoy all their internet based
> technologies perfectly (rich internet applications, flash, whatever
> Adobe sells). They wouldn't bother doing this if they didn't see Linux
> become a significant/worthwhile market in the mid-term. So it's only a
> matter of time until they decide that it's worth porting DW and alll
> their large apps. Who know, maybe they are already working on it
> secretely...

Perhaps. But it again boils down to what they see as the
earning potential. And Dreamweaver is not a "mass-market"
product.

>> I see some people have it running under Wine, but it's not a
>> sure thing, so far from ideal.
> 
> Yeah, Wine is nice for the techies who can spend time figuring things
> out, and live with a few bugs and problems, but hardly a "turn key",
> "just works", "zero hassle" solution like the masses need. Only a
> virtual machine running the native OS of the app, can do that,
> unfortunately.

Yup.

> Vince, might e-mail Adobe after all... just to see what they might
> reply, curious.

Would be interesting.

Odd