wine users - Jan 2009 - Selling Wine compatibility to Windows software vendors.

We have recently started promoting the Ubuntu OS and have converted all of our
offices to Ubuntu. We have closely been monitoring the development of Wine. It
has progressed very nicely and is the ONLY reason we were able to fully convert
all of our computers to linux.

We even sell gaming PCs with World of Warcraft thanks to Wine. 

We were just wondering if the developers of Wine ever considered selling
compatibility to software vendors. Since the linux user market is steadily
growing reaching this market would be huge and would not require much effort.
Software can be simply developed for Windows based systems with Wine
compatibility in mind.

What Wine developers can sell these companies is for example a list of usable
functions that software packages have access to and notification what functions
would make their program incompatible.

We greatly appreciate the development of this project and as our business grows
hope to donate as much as possible to see it's further success.

On Jan 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM, FeraTechInc <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> We have recently started promoting the Ubuntu OS and have converted all of
our offices to Ubuntu. We have closely been monitoring the development of Wine.
It has progressed very nicely and is the ONLY reason we were able to fully
convert all of our computers to linux.
>
> We even sell gaming PCs with World of Warcraft thanks to Wine.
>
> We were just wondering if the developers of Wine ever considered selling
compatibility to software vendors. Since the linux user market is steadily
growing reaching this market would be huge and would not require much effort.
Software can be simply developed for Windows based systems with Wine
compatibility in mind.
>
> What Wine developers can sell these companies is for example a list of
usable functions that software packages have access to and notification what
functions would make their program incompatible.
>
> We greatly appreciate the development of this project and as our business
grows hope to donate as much as possible to see it's further success.
>
>
>
>
>
>
Codeweavers does this.

-- 
-Austin

We have looked at CrossOver Linux and moved away from it due to it's cost.

I am however surprised Wine has not done this to increase revenue and
development of it's software.