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Disney uses Photoshop on Linux

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Penguin Moves to Disney

It seems that Disney uses Linux to save money.

August 4, 2003
By Anne Chen
The idea: develop technology using the Wine emulator to run Adobe Photoshop on Linux.

...The project has paid off tremendously for Disney this year alone. Development of the porting solution, including site licenses, cost Disney less than $15,000. Had he opted to run Photoshop on Windows machines, it would have cost upward of $50,000 just in annual licensing fees, said Brooks. He estimates support would have been an additional $40,000 a year.
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uhh... thats a lot of money saved... Pretty weird thing, but cool!~ :lol:
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