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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!"

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  1. Good article; good news. by sirinek · · Score: 3, Interesting


    It is indeed refreshing to see that a Linux-based software company is making quality applications, and more importantly, making money.

    The other thing I enjoyed seeing is that they are starting to get their products into retail stores and that Linux and Windows versions are "one box, one price", allowing people to migrate between the two and keep the app they paid for. Nice! :)

    Hopefully they keep up the good work, come out with some very nice apps and make the transition to Linux that much easier.

    Maybe they should come up with a QT Office suite (KOffice?) with for-pay MS Word filters and then migrate people over to Linux cause their software will still run. :) It'd be cheaper than MS Office, and still read the documents they need to read *and* run on Linux! :)

    siri

  2. QuantaGold? DataArchitect? Give me the Connector!! by imac.usr · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The lions share of requests have been for QuantaGold on OS X so far.


    The number one most useful product they could offer OS X users right now is a port of the Connector!


    Microsoft has stonewalled on delivering a native Exchange client for Mac OS X. In fact, according to a recent posting on Macintouch (scroll down to the second or third message), their official recommendation is that you set up a separate PC and use the new Remote Desktop client to access it!


    Here at NIH, we want to move to OS X soon but the lack of a native Outlook client is really going to hurt us. If Evolution+Connector were available instead, we would likely take a serious look at spending some serious money on it.

    --
    I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
  3. Made money? by NineNine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How do we know they made money? The article said nothing about profits, and it's not a publically treaded company.

  4. Re:Geek uniform? by Jack+Hughes · · Score: 3, Funny
    Is there a particular reason that *every* geek (including this guy) has to have a goatee, and most of them are overweight?

    You can eat pizza but you can't shave while sat at your keyboard staring at the screen.