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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP+TEAM OS SOFTWARE

Most of the open source flag wavers who state they won't buy commercial software are likely still stuck in their basements or just don't get it. That forum is dedicated to people in M&E and many of them are chomping at the bit to migrate off of windows, yet the common show stopper continues to be Photoshop - for the last decade or so. Who is being asked? There is a forum named 'Studio SysAdmins', if one were to go to that list and prompt the question and I assure you, you would have several hundred purchase commitments. I've been in a management role for years and have never been asked by Adobe or anyone for that matter if I would like to see Photoshop ported, or any 'survey' related to Adobe for that matter.

I wonder who these surveys you state which indicated there is little opportunity are being completed by or what the target audience is. Perhaps its the M&E bubble i'm stuck in that makes be believe there is lots of potential for PS on linux - but man, everyone i've talked to in the industry (from ILM, Disney, Wetta, Arc and many others) for the last decade or so has always maintained a desire to see PS released on linux.

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I ended up here on this page as yet again I find myself at yet another studio who wants to move off of windows to linux for the desktop, and we are seeing how/if the landscape has changed related to the Photoshop challenge. Aside from all that we spend _hundreds of thousands_ of dollars on licenses for products which will run on linux. But i'm sure with each quarter, sales would continue to climb. The first release may not sell a bunch as it would take people time to realize the final road block has been removed, and plan for a migration, which typically have to be scheduled weeks/months in advance due to project schedules. If these 3 studios in town here would be good to buy 40-100 cuts each, we are only 3 of hundreds or thousands of studios out there. Every one of these studios would be more than happy buying PS for linux post roll over. Its used in almost every department so it makes it extremely difficult to move off of windows or mac. How many cuts does Adobe have to think they need to be able to sell before the effort gets traction? In 3 studios there was an effort made to roll the desk tops over to linux, and its always the same road block which prevents many from doing so, Adobe Photoshop. That is from 2 or 3 studios here in Town that I've been at. I can say from my personal experience working in M&E studios for the last 15 years or so that Adobe would of had purchase orders for a few hundred linux cuts. another comment you may of made was 'linux users don't typically buy software'.

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2 guys in the Seattle office ported the IRIX code base of Maya to Windows in 2 weeks during their off time! Every company/project is different, i understand it may not be the same at Adobe. An interesting thing here is the amount of effort it took for the ports we did. If you are not using that, you are not using a supported configuration - support is off the hook (unless its Ford or a similar sized client calling you). Many list / standardize on RHEL as an example. What we did to address the 'linux fragmentation' issue as many other vendors do who offer ports, is state the system OS/Distro requirements. At Alias we ported a few of our products such as Maya in the 90's, to both linux and windows, I suspect Maya has more lines of code and is more complex than PS. A few years ago you said its too complex to offer on linux as the landscape isn't settled (which is still the case).

I worked at a few large software companies (Alias/Autodesk) and know this is how some ports of projects start their existence, as internal skunkwork efforts. I am willing to bet a linux port within Adobe already exists, as a result of an official mandate or skunkworks project. PS is done in C+, a port would be fairly 'easy'. I know they don't exist today and that was a long time ago - Adobe was a smaller company back then and was likely more nimble. PS was ported to IRIX back in the day, it was the second platform I used it on (mac being the first) - while I could be wrong I suspect you would sell more licenses for linux than for all the SGI ones ever sold, in your first year of offering it on linux. I know some are old threads (years old) and you likely had enough of it but always wanted someone at Adobe to hear my cries. I was looking at some old threads on the 'PS on Linux' conversations.

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