Comment Re:Its not the corporate apps (Score 1) 589
It's not just "invisible apps", it's Microsoft Access apps and Excel spreadmarts. Any company worth >$10m, nah every company worth >$10m has a dozen or so Access-based reports that a CEO uses and several directories of Excel workbooks with projections/equations.
Maybe it would have made more sense for IBM to first figure out where these renegade apps are, get them all to a Metaframe farm, then introduce Linux on the desktop (since the Citrix Java client works well), then look at migrating any apps back from Metaframe if needed.
Something else that would help is converting desktop apps to the .NET Framework WinForms along with GTK# and WxWidgets, they would/could port to Mono in the future.
Maybe it would have made more sense for IBM to first figure out where these renegade apps are, get them all to a Metaframe farm, then introduce Linux on the desktop (since the Citrix Java client works well), then look at migrating any apps back from Metaframe if needed.
Something else that would help is converting desktop apps to the
