"Missing Link" In Windows Emulation Unveiled?

ben_ writes "According to this article on inq7.net, a Philippines company called SpecOps has revealed their Project David, a middleware layer that solves the problem Wine has been working at for years and will "enable all major Microsoft Windows applications to run on the free and open source Linux OS". Further (and more sceptical) analysis at Linux Electrons." I'm with Linux Electrons on this; as nice as it sounds, the information about David comes via Press Release which as we all know are founts of dependability *cough*.

Comments

Re:is the web page broken or am I retard?

[shawn(at)fsu]

Not only do the links under Project David not work, if you click on Our Market [specopslabs.com] you get this
Hahaha!
They used some crappy template and when you click on market it has a single line that states "Our market content here"

If your going to make big claims for God's sake make sure your webpage is done. I think we can safely say:
"Move on nothing to see here"

"Move on nothin to see here"

First-Hand account of a David Demo :

[Jim Buzbee]

There's an Accout of a David demo here

Re:Innovate

[ichimunki]

Yes, it will be so much easier to retrain the users than it will to write software which simply meets their existing expectations.

Most users don't use 95% of the features of Word, but for those who do use any of those "advanced" features, your suggestion is mostly dead in the water. I suggest exploring useful integration of tables, revision control, forms, mail merging, spell checkers, outline tools, and many other fairly highly visible features from Word, before worrying about training users to think in computer-friendly terms so they can take advantage of less powerful software.

Also, Word already has stylesheets (and has since forever, IIRC). So you can already work with it in a way that gets you many of the advantages of other markup-based systems.

Disclosure: I use emacs for 99% of my text processing needs and if I need to present the text in a "pretty" form, I tend to present it as HTML. I don't really want to get into a flamewar because I'm not particularly fond of Word, but none of the tools I've seen on Linux are really at that level, when it comes to plain old word processing. Some of them are better for page layout, sure, but that's not all that exciting when the tool doesn't help at all during the process of writing.