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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:22:24 +0100 Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems this issue keeps cropping up It does (and has done for years), but not for programs that would run under crossover. > what are peoples experience with crossover office, this is available > from the Linux emporium and <£30 UKP, afaik, and allows running of > photoshop / MS office under Linux. The common requests appear to be financial programs and route maps, not spreadsheets and word processors. These are small operators, niche programs. I once got TaxCalc working under WINE but it could not submit the data to HMRC nor write out a file that I could submit separately, making the entire thing pointless. IIRC I once got Quicken to work under WINE but the very next Quicken release broke spectacularly. Big programs get lots of attention from both sides. Small programs on GNU/Linux or Windows tend not to get any attention in terms of portability or use in other environments. Try compiling GnuCash for WinXP via Cygwin. The solution that is gaining the most positive reaction would appear to be VM. I know, it is resource hungry and it pushes people back into the hardware upgrade cycle again but it does give these programs a usable foundation that would not be available otherwise. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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