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This would be my 11th or 12 year of using photoshop for at least 2 hours a day nearly every day of every year. I'm no artistic genius but I think I have enough experience to say I'm a "true photoshop USER".The only way an app is going to compete with photoshop and get users to switch is by:Make the tools, menu items, features, and visual feedback identical to photoshop.Make the feature set match photoshop's exactly, up to at least the core features of photoshop 5.5/6Do that and more than half the people in the world with a bootleg copy of photoshop will come running. Maybe even a few paint shop pro users.After that, interview some real photoshop users and find out what features,concepts,interfaces in photoshop they think suck, are stupid, are useless, are useful but the way you interact with them is horrible,...and improve on all of them. Honestly, many of those improvements would be a piece of cake if you've already gotten the original mimicked perfectly.That will give you another huge influx of bootleg photoshop users and quite a few who bought photoshop.Now to defeat photoshp all you have to do is take a few of the fun/cheesy/innovative features that don't exist at all in photoshop from its competitors:z-brush(texturing), painter(natural paint brushes), paint shop pro(tubes/pipes?), Alias Sketchbook (speed, tablet-oriented interface) and you will have the Killer pixel editing app. No doubt about it.

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@thinsoldier11 Linux / Unix are already used by enterprise, most large scale servers are not running windows. The only stronghold for windows in enterprise is the DESKTOP and windows is very good at being an enterprise Desktop. Sysshock has no idea what they are talking about, most of the systems he mentions are commercially availabled under UNIX ( including linux ). See my comment below.

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Sounds like you're trying to squeeze GUI-based configurability out of bash and gnome or something.Use something with KDE and YaST, problem solved. :)

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@ cynicist You have to be kidding me. I'll give you the eDirectory exception, but none of the others you list even compare as far as functionality is concerned. And even with eDirectory, none of the bigger name apps will authenticate against it because they're all written to use AD authentication schemes.Have you even used the programs I mentioned from ESRI, Tokairo or Captaris? If you had, you'd realize that none of the open-source "equivalents" come close. Listen, I'd LOVE for there to be a reason for me to switch out those programs and move to complete GPL'd software in my place of business but as it stands, users would see a great deal less functionality if we did.

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"Skyshock has no idea what they are talking about, most of the systems he mentions are commercially availabled under UNIX ( including linux )."Oh yeah? Captaris isn't. Tokairo isn't. ESRI isn't. I stand corrected on SAP. Almost none of the public safety management systems are. Believe me, I'd love to migrate as much as anyone as I use strictly desktop linux at home. It's a very powerful OS. It's just that most of OUR enterprise apps don't have suitable equivalents yet. And that's not to say we haven't looked either.

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The colors on that page make it very difficult to read. Here's a link to the original, easy to read, content.<a class="user" href="http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html&quot;&gt;http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html&lt;/a&gt;

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