>Hello all,
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>I saw an ad for Visual MainWin (by Mainsoft) on the back of the VC++ magazine.
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>Has anyone tried this technology for porting to Unix? How fast is it on comparable hardware??
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>There is a 30 day trial download, just wondered if I should bother.
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>Thanks
>
>Bob
They say it won't be out till the Q1. Has it arrived yet?

At $2,500 per seat it is not a trivial investment. But, for 30 days you can try it for free, so you have nothing to lose but your time.

Are you currently selling a WinXX based niche app and you want add Linux to your market share? The end product, in native Linux binary compatible with RH 6.2 (which would make it compatible with most Linux distros), carries with it the Win APIs, so they claim your app will look and run just like the WinXX version. What about backends? Does your app require one? Is it, or does it have, Linux compatibility?

Lastly, why not port the source and use KDevelop or Glide?