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In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.

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So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.

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I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump.

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We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

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I've never worked with the Java community.

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I was interested in Java the beginning, but the problem with Java is you do have to switch your platform.

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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.

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Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there.

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Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

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When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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