MS' hidden API

[Vincent Béron]

Le mer 03/07/2002 à 11:39, Andreas Mohr a écrit :
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 01:33:46AM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > My view is that we should focus on professional apps, such as CAD, some 
> > multimedia etc. There is professionals that won't switch to Linux until some 
> > unique apps they use can run under Linux.  Games are an issue, too.
> Very true.
> IMHO AutoCAD is *very* important, as it's considered to be a leading CAD
> package, with no UNIX version, ever.

Was a leading CAD package. It's still vastly used, but (in my
experience) mostly to get access to old drawings. Newer stuff gets
designed on SolidWorks, ProE, Catia, Mechanical Desktop and a couple
others which do real 3D.

> 
> > However, we couldn't make the rare apps run, until the API is mature, such 
> > that the most common ones will run, too.
> > So, don't worry if Outlook or Money doesn't run, worry about Matlab (say..).
> Matlab is the worst example that you could possibly have chosen.
> You are aware of the fact that there is a Linux version ?

Right. But are all toolboxes ported? The symbolic toolbox uses a Maple
lib (not only m-files), and I'm not sure if it's been ported.

Vincent