[Desktop_architects] Applications and pre-installed machines

[Timothy D. Witham]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:36 -0700, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:40, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
> > the smarter ones.   Unless it was moving people from
> > an established desktop and then that would involve
> > a corresponding drop in the established sales.
> 
> not necessarily. people may purchase the Windows version specifically because 
> it's cross-platform (versus their competition, who aren't) allowing for them 
> to support it today on the Linux desktops they do have (if any) and keeping 
> the door open for migration decisions tomorrow.
> 
   That's true - there is the possibility that having a Linux, Windows and Mac
version would put you up higher in the decision matrix.   Not sure how to
qualify that without the market pull.   I'm just not sure how to qualify
that number to an ISV/venture person.

Tim


> this is the scenario that Waldo raised in this thread, and it would indeed be 
> very interesting to know if there is any merit to it.
> 
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