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With XP ending support, I see many corporate customers switching to ReactOS. Firstly it's free rather than paying for a Windows upgrade, and secondly the premis
by sdegutis 13y ago
With XP ending support, I see many corporate customers switching to ReactOS. Firstly it's free rather than paying for a Windows upgrade, and secondly the premise is that all your apps will keep working exactly the same way, so no compatibility problems, and hence hopefully little to no downtime.
- davidgerard 13y agoI don't. However, Wine on Linux is plenty up to running quite a lot of software for production use (I have personal experience of this) and is IMO generally worth a try if you don't want to set up a gratuitous Windows VM.
- afreak 13y agoTo think that businesses will latch on to a solution that has never left alpha stage for development is shortsighted at best. There are far better solutions for making your XP applications continue to operate on modern systems. Or what we will see instead is the status quo support or not from Microsoft. There are plenty of 9x machines out there.
- userulluipeste 13y ago"There are far better solutions for making your XP applications continue to operate on modern systems." I guess Wine comes up as example for such solution, as it always does in such discussions. Yet, Wine would be qualified as alpha-stage development under ReactOS' marks. In their front-page "alpha stage" means "not feature-complete". It is quite usable in narrow use-cases though, cases for which a Linux-based solution is not an option.