Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2005 4:40 pm, Mike Coan wrote:
We have a small office LAN (10 workstations) We are in the process of replacing our server. For one of our major applications we have to have a Windows Server. My plan is to run SuSE 9.3 x64 on the server, and then run Windows 2003 server as a guest OS using VMWare workstation 5.0.
Windows 2003 is a supported guest of VMWare Wks 5.0. SuSE9.3 x64 is not officially supported, but SLES 9 is and I have read of a number of people successful running VMWare 5.0 on SUSE 9.3 x64.
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This just doesn't make sense to me at all.....sorry. Why nave a "thunking layer" to deal with just to run 'Bloze 2003 when there's BETTER native Linux software?!
Fred
I don't understand your answer. The particular applications in question are Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge and Financial Edge, a Donor Management program (we are a nonprofit corporation) and an accounting program that uses Microsoft's SQL Server and integrate together. These do not run on a Linux server. I looked high and low for good Linux Donor management software and couldn't find any. Anyway, it is moot at this point as it isn't likely we aren't going to change the donor management and accounting software. If you know of BETTER native Linux software than these, please let me know. There seem to be a number of quite adequate accounting packages in Linux, but almost nothing in the donor management area, and certainly no integrated packages that allow you to enter donation information and post it automatically to the accounting package. If you know of any please let me know. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 Tel 914-632-3778 Fax 914-632-5502