What I am curious about is why are people porting programs from other
platforms to the Mac?
Simply because there is demand. Most of what is said goes for direct
sales
to mac people, which is often not the case for these ported
software. It is
a distinction that I somewhat miss in these discussions.
It is about selling your windows/Linux software that wants a
"solution" for the
one demented mac user that maintains the companies newsletter (and
which the
helpdesk was already glad to be able to wane from classic Mac OS,
let alone
move to something "horrible" as Windows).
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I have known a few demented Mac users (of various subtypes) in my time
(including myself,) but have never met one so powerful as described as
to initiate an entire development project like that. I surmise the
situation described is a mixed computing environment. I have been in
such a situation but it developed into two camps where they were both
self sufficient entities. I suppose one could have a totally mixed
corporate environment but one side usually wins out with the Macs
usually being the ousted camp - if the company is not a graphics
design firm. I had thought all these battles were long finished in
corporate America, but I guess not.
As a long time (and solely) Mac user, I have wanted a few things (not
many) from the Windows world but didn't seem to have a problem living
without them. Only until very recently when there was something I
really NEEDED to do for business purposes that only was available on
Windows (a very small custom safety questionaire application required
by a customer), I went to Circuit City and bought a cheap PC for
$350. The other way to go would have been to install emulation
software on a new Mac but buying the intel hardware was/is cheaper
than the emulator/new mac and there are fewer potential problems and
learning curves. Actually, I didn't have to do either and could have
traveled 1,600 miles to take a one hour safety orientation in the
plant but figured economically I'd be ahead. That computer has had
about 4 hours of use and 3 of those hours was in trying to get the
windows application to work on my "fully configured" PC. I don't even
like to fool with the UNIX command line on my mac.... heh
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