Wine in the news

[Kai Blin]

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.

Cheers,
Kai

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