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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (42391)	4/17/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Read Replies (1) of 74651

There are many ways to get access to Windows software on Linux: - Dual-boot. This is not adequate for business users. - Wine. Only important for specific applications or application vendors that want to port, like Corel does. - VMware. Works perfectly (I use it). Costs VMware license+Microsoft Windows license. - Windows Terminal Server client. Costs Microsoft NT Client Access License + Microsoft Terminal Server access license. - Citrix software. Available as Linux native and Java versions. Costs same as Windows TS Client plus Citrix licenses. - Corel also made an agreement with some company, that claims to make seamless remote access to Windows applications. I don't know about the costs of that. So most feasable solutions will give MSFT an income, even though the client is Linux based. Maybe it will even increase MSFT's income, because some of the licenses might be necessary to buy if a Terminal Server etc. is not already present. In short term, Linux is therefore no competition on the desktop at all. In the long term though, Wine will become more adequate, more products will be crossplatform and native Linux/Unix/X-Windows software will be preferred if the client runs Linux. Quicken will easily run with both VMware, Terminal Server and Citrix. P.S.: The Wine server (http://www.winehq.com) was down today because it was overheatet (ambient temperature was 35 degrees Celsius). A new server has been put up (Pentium 100MHz, 32MB RAM, Red Hat Linux 6.2), but the database service on the new computer has not been properly configured yet, and therefore the link in the previous post will not work. (I know this because I e-mailed the administrator when it went down - it's a danish server).

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