On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Steven Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:winehacker@gmail.com">winehacker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
doubt it. The situation I face with my day job, is that we can't even<br>
get support for certain applications in VMware. As soon as we say "we<br>
have a virtualized cluster" they balk. And we are talking about<br>
situations where we are spending millions of dollars on our software<br>
and are going to be supporting it in house. With that sort of<br>
reaction, it leads me to think we are never going to make major<br>
inroads except for the end users at home or the people buying Linux<br>
netbooks.</blockquote><div><br>Kind of a tangent.. but I've thought for a long time Google did something really right with Picasa: they packaged a canned version of Wine alongside a canned version of their app.� These days, hard drives space is cheap and no one notices an extra 20MB of Wine libraries with a set up program.<br>
<br>Which leads me to my $.02: I wonder if there's a sweet spot for Wine adoption somewhere in the middle-tier of the software application popularity contest.� For instance, rather than going after Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (which is still a noble goal), what about approaching Paintshop Pro about their Photo x2 product.� Or, what about approaching the ISV that created Home Depot's freeware CD for laying out your home design?� Specifically, I think there's a lot of proprietary applications without a good alternative (think more of the Home Depot or Sysco's "Rio", etc ).� I think there's $$$ to be made for someone who can QA apps with Wine, fix minor issues, package Wine alongside the app, and finally deliver the product to an ISV.� I don't think this is something the Wine community itself would be interested in, but I suspect there's someone in the Wine community who's capable of pulling it off.� I think there's a lot of angles to the idea that could work.<br>
<br>-Brian<br><br><br></div></div>