[plug] Linux Accounting Packages

[Mr Shayne]

I'm going to beg to differ. I managed to get bloody gator installed(!) on 
a window machine by running ie under vanilla wine (Hint: Getting wine 
actually useable is all in the DCOM stuff) , whereas VMWare runs 
everything in a little sandbox.

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On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Senectus . wrote:

> On 9/8/05, Randal Adamson <ranz at devdata.net> wrote:
>> Please don't say Wine or CrossOver Office. I certainly do not want my
>> machine to be succeptable to Windows-based security problems. And, yes,
>> Wine and Crosssover does leave your linux box succeptable.
>>
>> VMWare is a consideration, but that means you're still dictated by M$
>> licenses - and I'm kind of not wanting to go there.
>
> eh? VMware is ok, but crossover office and wine aren't??
> VMWare is a MUCH higher virus risk than crossover office.
> Crossover office/wine is damn cheap, no Windows license required and
> it's virus risk is so damn minimal it's not worth stressing about.
> It's also much MUCH lower impact on your system resources..
>
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