On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:13:52PM GMT, Mark Warner [
mhwarner@gmail.com] said the following:
> David M. Moore wrote:
> >
> > Having said that, though, I will say there is one thing that could
> > happen that could radically change that possibility over a very short
> > period of time. If Adobe would release a version of CS5 Master
> > Collection that ran natively on Linux, that could be the first nail in
> > Windows' coffin. If you look at any poll on the most wanted commercial
> > application for Linux, what ever the current version of Photoshop and
> > Premier is when the poll is taken is the winner every time. That could
> > be a serious game changer.
>
> Same for Quickbooks. That would make it a viable alternative in many
> small businesses.
>
It might be interesting for you to hear some feedback about how open
source desktop apps are being used professionally.
Marina (my wife who does web design/development at Suso) uses GIMP
professionally and says that there are some things that GIMP doesn't do
as well as Photoshop like fonts and various functionality that Photoshop
has for making buttons, drop shadows, etc. Sure, there are ways of
doing the extravagant things manually, but Photoshop already has lots of
builtin templates and plugins for quickly making these things. For GIMP
to do it would just be a matter of someone putting in the time to make
professional looking template packs and plugins or something. But few
people have and a lot of what is out there is very amaturish and they
are not organized well
Actually, I think this is what is missing from open source in general.
Professional libraries, templates and plugin packs for apps like GIMP,
Inkscape, Dia, Blender, etc. These things are simply a time saver so
that businesses see the competitive edge of using one software package
over another.
I remember back in the 90s (maybe its still the case) the different
office suites would make a big deal about how much clip art they had,
this was a big deal because so many people where using them for
brocheres, etc. and not having to buy extra clip art would be money
saved.
Suso uses Gnucash and so does my mother-in-law's new alterations
business in the mall. When she opened it up she bought a laptop and
decided to just use Windows 7, but when I said that we could get
Quickbooks or something for it if she wanted, she said she was
comfortable with Gnucash already because she had helped us at Suso.
--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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