zentara wrote:

Then I heard last year that there is a win32 emulator running on on some big unix platform, but not linux. Why not on linux also?

I'm just guessing here, but these other companies (SCO with Merge) developed their product using their labor to promote their products. If they release the source code (remember, the big Unix companies like Sun and SCO are like MS in that they don't release source code) to the Linux developers, then they are releasing some of their competitive advantage in a niche market. As a manager, even though I love Linux, I would not release corporate assets in this fashion - it's not in the stock-holder's best interest. Sun, on the other hand, released WABI after Win95 was released, and after they had developed superior products for their workstations. I may be off here, but then Sun is rather unconventional in their management and thinking. Personally, I don't think MS has released anything useful since early 1995. Office 4.3 is much better than Office 97 in terms of usability and crash resistance. George - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e