[Sigia-l] Tool standardization (was about visio or not to visio)

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Listera wrote:

> I don't even know where to begin to plug the wholes in that argument, as
> there are a thousand gushing holes. But one should suffice: If that's the
> sole criterion, then why do we *not* have Linux or Unix variants that are
> 'free,' dominating the enterprise OS scene?
>
> The bad news for you is that if large orgs 'standardize' on those, you won't
> be able to enjoy your Visio. :-)

If large organisations stnadardised on Linux or Unix variants you'd see
tools equivalent to Visio being built for and ported to those operating
systems a lot quicker than is happening at present.

Apparently you can run at least some versions of Visio on linux using
WINE.  Haven't tried it myself.

Andrew



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