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SYS-CON Radio Interviews Bob Corrigan, InstallShield
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SYS-CON Radio interviews Bob Corrigan, Product Manager for
InstallShield's setup authoring tools, live at the LinuxWorld Conference &
Expo 2004 in San Francisco about the dramatic year-to-yer growth that
InstallShield is seeing in its cross-platform sales...including
Linux.
"You can create Linux installs with InstallShield 10," Corrigan
says.
Is he worried that someone in the OS community will write a
"killer installer application" and open source it, thus making InstallShield
10's virtues moot? Sure, the company needs to keep an eye on that, Corrigan
concedes.
But it's a complicated business, and one at which InstallShield
excels uniquely.On about 500 million PCs globally, the 6th most distributed
application on Windows, InstallShield now hopes to extend beyond its
ubiquity in the Windows marketplace to the Linux world."When open source folks
see the InstallShield logo, they will think, 'Aha - they cared enough to use the
very best,' he says..
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[interview in MP3 format]
About James TurnerJames Turner is president of Black Bear Software. James was formerly senior editor of Linux.SYS-CON.com and has also written for Wired, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications. He is currently working on his third book on open source development.