New Competition For CodeWeavers: Aclerex 218
Shisha writes "Linux Planet is running a story about a new Wine offspring. Basically the Canadian company Transgaming decided, that their version of Wine, WineX, is good not only for running games, but for other Windows programs too. So why not try to sell it? For marketing reasons they're selling it to corporations under the AclereX name. Their website has a datasheet with more details about what they are actually offering. Unlike CodeWeavers, they don't seem to be targeting individuals at all, they'd rather sell to corporations. So no downloads available, sorry. Still it could speed up Wine developement, which is always good. Wine Weekly News discusses some of the reactions of the original Wine authors."
Aclerex (Score:5, Funny)
Modern company names (Score:5, Funny)
AclereX/ActiveX lawsuit? (Score:3, Funny)
Aclerex? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and on their front page, they've titled it "Enterprise Migrationware." Please, for the love of God, hire a marketing staff. This sounds like a bunch of geeks getting together and saying "What would PHBs like? Oh, I know, let's make a new buzzword! How about 'enterprise migrationware'? Because, see, it has 'enterprise' in it... and we've added 'ware' to the end..."
No. Please do not name your product with the dot-com bullsh*t generator [dack.com]; it's not supposed to be used in the place of a marketing team. Take this one back to the drawing board.
Re:Aclerex (Score:5, Funny)
It's got to be said - (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Aclerex? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, same thing here. Bizarre Latin-sounding names went out of style around May 2002, this is just terrible marketing. How much did this name cost them? Sheesh. There is a perfectly good industry-standard IEEE-approved naming technology, the TLA.
Besides, I still can't figure out who this product is meant for: companies trying to move other people's software to Linux, or companies that make Windows software?
Perhaps I'm just too stupid for this product, yeah that's probably the answer.
Extra commas? (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like... (Score:4, Funny)
Warning: Women who might be pregnant should not take Aclerex, or handle broken tablets...
Re:Modern company names (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Extra commas? (Score:2, Funny)
It's, just, the way, some of us, write. Gotta. Problem:
with;
that?
Re:Extra commas? (Score:2, Funny)
This, post. Suffers terribly
Shows, all, the symptoms.
TomV
Re:Until you have a work Office, I'd say no (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Extra commas? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it was posted by this guy [xmission.com].