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Saying stuff like
Originally posted by droidhacker
And if a company adopts Wine-based products like this to run legacy Windows products they already own and Windows-only websites they have no choice but to use, when the next vendor comes calling, the guy who made the Wine decision so he could move the entire company to Linux on the desktop isn't going to order the Windows version. He's going to say "We're a Linux shop. What's your Linux support like?" It makes the annoying Windows-only sales calls end abruptly and if more than about 5% of companies do that, it'll make vendors do things differently.
I say this from direct experience. Unfortunately, my direct experience also says that only smaller businesses with a technical culture and good continuity -- and 800-pound-gorillas like Google -- can make such a migration stick, but it is happening.
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