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Re: PyQt GPL in Windows ?
by MandrakeUser on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @14:05
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Cool, thanks!
Win PyKDE of course will depend on what happens with Win KDE ... oh well, one step at a time
Personally, I only use windows at work 'cause I have no option. It sucks, and I'd love to be able to use some kde apps ... |
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Re: PyQt GPL in Windows ?
by Xanadu on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @20:00
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>Personally, I only use windows at work 'cause I have no option.
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I feel you all too well. HOWEVER, what is it you're lacking? OOo has opened and write to (via Linux) any Company's files I have needed too (and export them to PDF if need be - for free). File sharing? Samba. Email? If it's just Exchange you have to work with, there's plugins for that. If you one of the lucky that are straight imap or even pop, then I don't see a problem there. Is there something I'm missing?
M.
P.S.
This is *NOT* a flame. I'm HONESTLY very curious what it is from holding you back.
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Re: PyQt GPL in Windows ?
by Bryan Feeney on Wednesday 29/Jun/2005, @03:49
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Not to be rude, but I suspect it's the lead system administrator.
Not all of us can do what we want you know!
More seriously, there are more serious software issues than the ones you're thinking of. A lot of (surprisingly large) businesses use things like Access & Visual Basic or Lotus Notes to manage their data - there's no easy way of carrying that across to Linux, and the price of bespoke software is always going to be high. Also, some business rely on Windows only tools. Further, they often use fairly complex accounting software, for which equivalents are not readily available for Linux (KMyMoney is not an option!), and tools like Crystal Reports for complex reporting.
Event companies doing bespoke development may need Windows tools as their clients will use Windows: this means Delphi, C++ Builder or VC. Kylix is not a viable option (it's unsupported and alledgedly buggy) and the cost of Qt/Win, Qt/X11 and a solid Linux distro is greater than Qt/Win and Windows. Doing desktop development with Java takes too long (although the upcoming Netbeans may rectify that), and Java on the desktop has a bad rep which may put off customers.
The only way you could switch easily to Linux is if you're doing Java development, and use open-source tools for change-control and issue-tracking like Subversion and Mantis. For most "normal" organisations, a switch is a major deal. It's never just Office and email.
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Re: PyQt GPL in Windows ?
by MandrakeUser on Wednesday 29/Jun/2005, @05:33
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Right on target. I work for one of the largest financial organizations globally. I can't possibly choose what software I run, and what OS I run. I work within a mid-sizegroup, and development is done in winXP boxes. It is horrible, multi-tasking is slow as sh*t (evne with a dual processor fast box). But these decisions are not made by me as an individual, but at a higher level, taking many factors into account. We do use Linux, and we are moving the client side of what we do to Java, and if at some point all our clients here use the Java interface, we could possibly move 100% to Linux, at least my group. We'll see, it looks very unlikely ...
The only OS stuff I use is where I get to choose (Firefox, Cygwin for some shell stuff, Kdiff3 which provides Win* binaries, and that's about it)
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