Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Louis Richards <louis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Sowden wrote:

> what is the difference between the codeweaver program and wine.  I understand
> that code weaver uses wine, so is the difference:
> a) 39.95
> b) 3 months of install only support
> ?
>  

Well for starters COO has an installation and configuration program that 
makes it *very* easy to install/uninstall many MS programs. Their 
program installer will simulate reboots when needed and create the file 
associations for both Gnome and KDE and create the menu entries for both 
as well. It is possible to do this with the open source version of Wine, 
however COO has proved itself (IMO) to be more stable for running MS 
Office and this was my main use for it. Most users will find the 
convenience and stability of COO worth the price.

> Secondly, they seem to be very vague regarding which windows programs run
> under they product.  There ad chart says that their 'supported programs' run
> under their product.  When you go to the 'brose the list of supported
> programs, their is a field in the chart labeled 'medal'.  Is this another
> bill gates word invention?  Under 'medal' most of the entries are "untested".
> This is a commercial product?  or, is 'untested' a caveat saying that they
> don't know if if works (like the tobacco executives who are excused from the
> room when the discussion turns to cancer, etc., for deniability).  No
> reference that I could find to DOS applications.
>
>  
Untested means it has not been tested...so they don't know if it works. 
Bringing up tobacco executives and Bill Gates seems more like examples 
of someone *not* telling you it was untested/unknown. I also find the 
use of the term "commercial" being used as a test of a programs quality 
to be a odd on a Linux list. :-)

That being said, I personally rarely use the product any more. I just 
don't have the need. If, however,  you have a need to run MS Office 
under Linux and want to do so easily, you should find the program quite 
stable and worth the price.

> rsvp,
>
> John Sowden
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HTH,
Louis