| Novell asks: Which Windows-only apps do you need most? |
Jan. 26, 2006
Novell, through its CoolSolutions community-relations website, is conducting an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications are most likely to keep Windows users from migrating to Linux. The company also wants to know which Windows-only apps would be most popular on Linux desktops if they were ported to Linux.
"The end result is that we will be contacting the vendors of these applications, asking them to partner with Novell to port their software to Linux," said CoolSolutions site editor Scott Morris. "As you know, numbers speak volumes."
Morris said responses to the survey, which was launched earlier this month, thus far have been all over the board.
"We are getting some responses that we expected, such as money management software (Quicken, QuickBooks, TurboTax)," he told DesktopLinux.com in an email. "Some responses were not anticipated, such as (Adobe) Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator. It's nice to see things from the multimedia field being requested. That seems to indicate that the other basic needs are already fulfilled."
Morris added that "we are really pushing this hard. We are acutely interested in what the community needs and are willing to put some intense muscle into getting their voices heard. This survey is one of the preliminary ways we are soliciting the opinion of the community."
Morris said that Novell will probably keep the survey posted for about a year.
The one-page survey, which can be completed in 10 minutes or less, features some suggested choices of apps and companies in drop-down lists. How were those determined?
"We ran the survey open-ended for a few weeks, compiled the results, and listed the most frequently-requested applications in the drop-down," Morris said.
Morris invites DesktopLinux.com readers to participate in the online survey, which can be found here.
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