Linux, anyone?

[Pierre Sahores]

Herve Proudhon a écrit :
> 
> My nutrition shareware Diondine has been avaible for Linux, Windows and
> Mac for more than 3 years. My sales results :
> Mac : 15%
> Windows : 85%
> Linux : 1 sale with a stolen Credit Card (results : a Kagi chargeback
> and a "free" registration code available on the Internet !)
> 
>  From a Linux forum :
>     - Is there a nutrition program available for Linux ?
>     - Diondine  but
>        1 It's not Open source
>        2 It costs money
> 
> So, the last version of my program is not avaible for linux !
> 
> Herve Proudhon
> 
> ----------
> Frenchdiet, a nutrition shareware : http://www.diondine.com
> Les calanques de Marseille : http://www.calanquesmarseille.com
> ----------
> 
> > Are any of you selling commercial Rev- or MC-based apps to the Linux
> > market?
> > I'd be interested in learning about your experiences there.
> >
> > With MC's speed on Linux, it should be able to compete favorably with
> > most
> > ported wares in terms of performance.  The OS itself seems to be moving
> > quickly into a suitable desktop alternative in terms of both
> > capabilities
> > and ease of use (Business Week reports that 10% of desktop machines in
> > India
> > are Linux).
> >
> > Since building for Linux takes only a few seconds in Rev or MC, I
> > wonder to
> > what degree our choice of tools is handing us a good opportunity....
> >
> > --
> >  Richard Gaskin
> >  Fourth World Media Corporation
> >  Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site
> >  ___________________________________________________________
> >  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com       http://www.FourthWorld.com
> >  Tel: 323-225-3717                       AIM: FourthWorldInc

Richard,

Linux provide both his "Mister Jeckhill" and "Doctor Hyde" faces...

First : a fast growing professional market with lots of money to do.
Second : an integrist community of "players/speakers around" (mostly,
students) unable to understand that real developpers are not able to
work for free.

If i expect we are sharing the same interest for the first one of thoses
faces, it's not always easy to find the good clients we can works with :
because Linux is mostly unknowed from the big companies IT Managers (as
an example, there is, today, only seven(7) SAP/R3 ERP Linux-hosted
solutions installed all over the world), because the propetary platforms
solutions vendors are hard fighting to stay alive (marketing dumping,
lobbing, etc...), we have to be very carefull about the people we can,
for yet, expect to get good contracts by proposing Linux hosted
solutions.

I'm, for my own, only working with two kind of clients : (1) public
administrations (because the french governement is not against the use
of linux in replacement of propetary platforms solutions), (2)
profesional internet providers (because they are good and right knowing
what linux is and what they can expect from it to set-up powerfull web
appliances).

-- 
Cordialement, Pierre Sahores

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