[H-GEN] A Few Quick Questions

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Anthony,





Anthony Irwin <anthonyi at toolboxsoftware.com.au>
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27/07/03 11:53
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> Greg Black wrote:
> >
> > On 2003-07-27, Anthony Irwin wrote:
> >
> >> I do however have a small problem, the company requires that we run
> >> some windows software. The software that is required to run is the
> >> software they produce and sell.
> >
> > Well, quite obviously, they need Windows boxes (running whatever
> > Windows versions they "support"), to develop and test this stuff
> > on.  Anything else is plain silly (and, from the perspective of
> > the paying customers for that software, close to fraudulent).

> All the development will be done in windows, they want to transfer
> reception, sales, support and other people who don't require windows to
> GNU/Linux.

So let's get this situation straight. They want linux (based on your 
recommendations) for their general network and support infrastructure. 
They want linux-based solutions to all document-production and business 
management soulutions. They use a windows development system (with no 
terminal server) for development purposes but they also belive that their 
product is useful to their own company's deployment. I assume this product 
is some kind of productivity management system or office management 
system.

Now they want to run their server on linux.

It seems to me that perhaps the right way to do this is a linux port of 
their software. They could do this using wine by tailoring their product 
so that it works both under wine/winelib and under the other windows 
platforms they support. Another approach would be to tailor wine/winelib 
to support everything they need to do with it. On the other hand they 
could just rewrite it in gtk or wxWindows or some other framework that's 
already been ported.

If none of these approaches sounds palletable to the developers then they 
should probably consider a more windows-focused environment, or consider 
using something other than their own product to fill their office's needs.

Benjamin.


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