| Matthew Rosewarne on 19 Jan 2008 13:01:03 -0800 |
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On Saturday 19 January 2008, W. Chris Shank wrote: > WINE? Seriously? What are you going to do when you think the > application works, but then there is that one feature the user needs > once a quarter. They click that menu action and the system craps out. > Then you have to spend 3 days looking for help, discover that you need > a feature in the current SVN version and now you need to download and > compile it - but it then breaks some other feature that used to work. That's why it's an opportunity, not a done deal. It would at best be a stopgap measure, but many businesses seem to have no problem jumping from stopgap to stopgap in perpetuity. > How far in the wind are you willing to stick your bare behind? > Sometimes, you do need vendors with support teams that can help you. > It totally sucks to have users breathing down your neck to fix > something and have no place to turn. The whole point is that MS isn't going to help you, and there's no real possibility of updating these duck-tape-and-string homegrown apps. In that situation, being able to run it in Wine (or for paid support, Crossover) would be a real life-saver. Sure, you should rewrite the app, but there's often a wide margin between what people should do and what they actually do. Attachment:
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