31 Aug
2004
31 Aug
'04
14:50
Only Wine is free Crossover Office is an excellent product, and CodeWeavers does support WINE and host WINE on their server.
Another possibility is to use Win4Lin (http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin50/) This runs as a process under Linux and supports Windows 9x (eg. 98, 98SE, ME). It is cheaper than VMWARE, and uses the Linux file system.
Another thing to contemplate as far as VMWare goes, is you need a pretty robust machine (plenty of processor, memory, and HD space). Since it emulates an entire computer running Windows, it's a bit of a resource hog. (My laptop, a Celeron 366, runs SuSE 9.1 fine, with Photoshop 7 and Dreamweaver running under Crossover Office 3. The same machine chokes to a halt trying to run VMWare.