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Interview With Shawn Gordon of TheKompany

Posted by Hemos on from the making-cash-money dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews features an interview with Shawn Gordon, president of TheKompany. Shawn talks about version 1.0 of Aethera and Kapital coming out in September, porting a lot of their Qt apps to MacOSX, the future of Linux on the desktop, how the embedded Linux market was surprisingly successful financially for them, as well as selling well their desktop apps. It is really encouraging to read that a desktop-oriented company actually made real money from Linux this year!"

2 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. Desktop Linux Viability Study by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think this is a good example of a company that has successfully brought products to Linux and has made money on the platform. It demonstrates that there is infact a market for commercial software on Linux and *hopefully* will cause other software companies such as Macromedia, Adobe, Intuit, etc al to invest the money necessary to port their applications to Linux.

  2. Re:QuantaGold? DataArchitect? Give me the Connecto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    > The number one most useful product they could offer OS X users right now is a port of the Connector [ximian.com]!

    Nice idea, wrong company. Maybe you didn't notice, but Shawn Gordon works for TheKompany, not Ximian.