What does Wine 1.0 Mean for Business?
This is a 1.0 that I wasn't sure would ever come. No, I'm not talking about the Duke Nukem game that's been vaporware for the last decade or so -- I'm talking about Wine 1.0, which is slated for release on June 6th of this year. That's a mere 15 years after development was started.
Wine, if you're not already familiar with it, is an application that allows Windows apps to run unmodified on Linux and other *nix operating systems.
The idea behind Wine is simple -- one of the blockers that keeps people from switching to Linux is the fact that many of the popular applications are Windows only. Convincing commercial vendors to port popular apps like Photoshop to Linux requires a significant userbase on Linux. Of course, generating a significant market share for Linux is dependant on having popular apps... you see the problem here. So I've been rooting for the Wine Project to deliver a version capable of running most (if not all) popular Windows apps on Linux.
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