CrossOver Conversions Porting Process

Few of our customers have the exact same needs; we often craft a custom solution for each customer, and we will be happy to do the same for you. However, some basic steps are common to many of our CrossOver Conversions engagements:

Starting Off

The first step is often with you. In most cases, you know your application better than we do, and almost unquestionably are better able to judge how well (or not) it runs under CrossOver. That's why we provide our free evaluation copies of CrossOver — so you can quickly install and evaluate your software under our product. In many cases, though, you'll need a deeper evaluation of why something isn't working under CrossOver and what the costs of fixing that might be. Hence the need for...

Kicking The Tires

Whether we need to get a cranky application to install, or evaluate what/why/how much it will cost to port an application, this step is crucial for gathering information. Once we're done with that, we move on to...

Proof of Concept

In many cases, customers will want a proof of concept to validate the basic user experience. Once the application is running we can deliver that rapidly. After that, though, it's time to roll up the sleeves...

Porting the Application

This is where the heavy lifting occurs; the hard work associated with making the application run under CrossOver in a commercially acceptable way. Once we're done with that, we move on to...

Ongoing Support

Your software may change. Wine (and hence CrossOver) will change. Keeping your application running smoothly into the future requires planning and forethought. We work with our customers to create custom licensing and support solutions that will meet their ongoing product needs.

For almost all service engagements, we like to start with an introductory phone conversation, in which we arrange to have both a sales representative and a technical person from CodeWeavers available. Please contact James Ramey, VP Sales, at sales@codeweavers.com, or call 651-523-9302 to arrange an initial consultation.