just wondering .... when will coreldraw be available on linux?
today, corel is the only application which holds me back from switching
13 years has pass since this was written.. It would be great to see CorelDraw work on Wine, no need for Corel to develop a linux version, just make it work. Then Corel would know how the market place is.No check out Inkscape!! it has grown very much in the last years.Also see how Microsoft has join the Linux Foundation and created Azure in linux.
Regards
Seriously, if you were the CEO of the company, would it seem a reasonable strategy to invest money in developing a version for a platform that has zero profit and that represents less than 5% of the market for decades? practically everything in Linux is free, so thinking about making a profit is impossible.
Mac is a more closed environment, but many designers use Mac, both MacOS and computers because they are very powerful and stable. Therefore, it makes sense to invest in a market segment with high purchasing power and where a large number of potential users are concentrated. None of that applies to Linux.
I am not against Linux. But I think it is a bad idea to pretend that Corel wasting time and money on a version compatible with Linux
I agree, making a version for Linux is a waste, I'll go as far and say the MAC version loses money.
Yes, probably, but at least on Mac it is part of a strategy to reinforce Corel's presence on Mac. Corel has recently acquired Parallels, at the same time that it was developing the version of CorelDRAW for Mac. It also has other native programs for Mac, such as Painter or CorelCAD. In other words, even though it is a small market, it is a market with good purchasing power. Not everything refers to the percentage of profits, there is also an investment in prestige and popularity. In the same way that there are countries where the majority use CorelDRAW and others where it is used little, but Corel should not neglect those countries or regions where it is less popular.
However, developing a version for Linux is totally useless. It would be only to please a few users who want to have a good but free program. In relation to Inkscape, the fact that practically nobody uses it despite being free already says it all. Its main use is for SVG graphics for the web, therefore, no company in the world uses it as the main software for printing. It does not have even a 1% popularity in any ranking, although its defenders will surely say that this data is false or manipulated. Obviously, if you are in a community of users of a program, and every day you send and receive files from it with other users, you may come to believe that it is the reality all over the world, but no.
All the Linux and Unix systems I know are servers and they do a good job at that as work stations for general use they bomb.