The record- and file-locking issues will indeed keep a lot of apps from being deployable in Linux, but not all apps. If your data is on a backend server the locking issues don't matter. If your app is single-user, single-instance (ie you can use all the data exclusively without any problems) then you are ok.

And development can happen on Linux no matter what - the developer will have a snapshot of test data and won't care about the locking issues. I still need to do extensive testing but it appears that all IDE features work fine in Linux.

Developers will need to be aware of the locking issues, that's all. I for one don't depend on locking at all (my apps are either single/user single/instance or client/server).

And... presumably the locking issues will be going away someday. Wine is Alpha code after all...

Yes, reality strikes again... :)

--Paul


>So, we returned to reality. Thanks for the clarification.

>>I was wrong. Neither file locking nor record locking currently work in Wine. It is, apparently, being worked on but for now if you try it you'll see that even though fox thinks a record or file is locked, it in fact is not -- another instance can get a "lock" on the same record or file.