11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
1:29 p.m.
At 02:54 PM 8/11/2007, Chuck Guzis wrote:
If OS X is really Unix under the hood, then why do
vendors of several
of my high-end applications that are offered in Windoze and OS X
versions all say "We have no plans for a Linux version"? It would
seem to be a pretty easy thing to do.
Obviously, each platform's desktop GUI has a different API. You might
be able to find some similarities, of course, but there's always a
gotcha or two. It's one thing to be "able" to make a Linux version,
it's another entirely to want to develop, market, sell and support it.
Who'd buy it? :-) Enterprise Linux is one thing, fanboy another.
Once upon a time, my company's product was sold on several platforms:
Windows of several CPUs, SGI, Windows, 32-bit DOS extender and
waning Amiga. We had a Linux version, too, but we only used it
in-house because the debugging tools were better in several areas.
We licensed parts under Mac, too, but never sold it to consumers that way.
- John