New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex

Shisha writes "Linux Planet is running a story about a new Wine offspring. Basically the Canadian company Transgaming decided, that their version of Wine, WineX, is good not only for running games, but for other Windows programs too. So why not try to sell it? For marketing reasons they're selling it to corporations under the AclereX name. Their website has a datasheet with more details about what they are actually offering. Unlike CodeWeavers, they don't seem to be targeting individuals at all, they'd rather sell to corporations. So no downloads available, sorry. Still it could speed up Wine developement, which is always good. Wine Weekly News discusses some of the reactions of the original Wine authors."

Comments

Aclerex

[gowen]

Aclerex? Why have they named it as if it werea cream for clearing up acne?

Re:Aclerex

[Anonymous Coward]

You are forgetting the audience here...

Modern company names

[random_rabbit]

Why does every new company or product have to invent a new word? "Aclerex"? What was so wrong with "Wine Ecks and Sons, Est. 1832, Purveyors of Fine Software and Noted Not-Emulators"?

Re:Modern company names

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually they wanted to go with that, but it turned out that wineecksandsonsest1832purveyorsoffinesoftwareandno tednot-emulators.com was already taken.

AclereX/ActiveX lawsuit?

[rollingcalf]

It won't be long before Microsoft sues them over the name similarity...

Aclerex?

[SlashChick]

For some reason, my brain keeps wanting to make this name into some variant of "Accel-".... as in Accelerex. At least then the name is a sort of verb... but "AclereX" sounds like some sort of weird drug. I mean, ACK-luhr-ex? With a capital X? I don't get it. Why must open-source products be plagued by such terrible marketing?

Oh, and on their front page, they've titled it "Enterprise Migrationware." Please, for the love of God, hire a marketing staff. This sounds like a bunch of geeks getting together and saying "What would PHBs like? Oh, I know, let's make a new buzzword! How about 'enterprise migrationware'? Because, see, it has 'enterprise' in it... and we've added 'ware' to the end..."

No. Please do not name your product with the dot-com bullsh*t generator; it's not supposed to be used in the place of a marketing team. Take this one back to the drawing board.

Re:Aclerex?

[heironymouscoward]

my brain keeps wanting to make this name into some variant of "Accel-".... as in Accelerex

Yeah, same thing here. Bizarre Latin-sounding names went out of style around May 2002, this is just terrible marketing. How much did this name cost them? Sheesh. There is a perfectly good industry-standard IEEE-approved naming technology, the TLA.

Besides, I still can't figure out who this product is meant for: companies trying to move other people's software to Linux, or companies that make Windows software?

Perhaps I'm just too stupid for this product, yeah that's probably the answer.

It's got to be said -

[(void*)]

Old WINE and new bottles. Nothing to see here, move along folks.

Extra commas?

[abischof]

Basically the Canadian company Transgaming decided, that their version of Wine, WineX, is good not only for running games, but for other Windows programs too.

Why is it that some authors, decide to insert commas all over, the place? ;) (admittedly, some of those commas are necessary, but not all of them)

Re:Extra commas?

[MegaFur]

It's, just, the way, some of us, write. Gotta. Problem:
with;
that?

Re:Extra commas?

[TomV]

It's, Shat. ner's Syndrome.
This, post. Suffers terribly
Shows, all, the symptoms.

TomV

Re:Extra commas?

[BetterThanCaesar]

Maybe it was posted by this guy.

Sounds like...

[Saberwind]

...the latest designer drug name

Warning: Women who might be pregnant should not take Aclerex, or handle broken tablets...

Re:Until you have a work Office, I'd say no

[ErikZ]

Here's 50$ kid, go get yourself 512MB of RAM.