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This is a wikified version of Paul Vigay's wishlist with his permission. If you have a solution, or a suggestion, feel free to add it. Use the talk page to voice your particular opinion as to the validity of anything listed below.

Stuff People Want

Accounts A lot of businesses use the superb Prophet 3 Professional accounts package, but development seems to have stopped, and it would be nice to see either Prophet brought up to date, or a new accounts package being developed and actively supported.
Braille transcription Self-explanatory
Genealogy A lot of people have requested a decent 'family tree' application, possibly something like Reunion on Mac OS X
OCR A professional OCR application which would control the scanner and have the same facilities at least as Omnipage Pro
Photodesk It would be great to see continued development and bug fixes of the Photodesk image editing software. CJE are said to have commissioned development, but it's been awfully quiet for a long time
Presentation An up to date presentation package, like MS Powerpoint or Mac OS's Keynote
Real Audio Possibly quite difficult, due to licensing confusion
Spreadsheet Able to cope with later Excel capabilities (although ViewXLS does go quite a long way to allowing RISC OS users to view Excel files
VoIP Some form of RISC OS H.323 voice communications system. A port of Skype is unlikely, as the product is commercial, but the Open Source Gizmo may be more possible
Weather analysis A program to download weather data from a Davis Vantage 2 weather station via USB and automatically upload to the Internet - eg. a replacement for the PC program WeatherLink 5.7