Shawn Fertch wrote: > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:44:21 -0600 > Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I understand that MS has a foothold on much of the business world in terms of Office programs as well as desktops and what I'd call "low end" servers, meaning no big powerhouses like Unix/AS400/etc. As well as them continually coming up with whatever else the have in programs. NOt to mention a lot of really good games being built for Windows, unfortunately not for Linux. > But, here's what I can't figure out. If the alternative is to get away from Windows, or MS entirely, to save money or the like I don't see this as the answer. Pardon if I'm wrong, but my understanding on these programs like Wine, VMWare, Win4Lin, with Win4Lin and VMWare you still need Windows. With Wine you don't, it's a windows replacement (or emulator if you will :). If you happen to have the windows dlls it can use them, but it doesn't need them at all. Eric