You might want to take a look at VMWare. Any Machine running windows software would still require a Windows license, but you could do this on a case by case basis. Regards, Bob Wingard -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ashley Davey Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 1:39 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Linux desktop Hi List Our Corporate IT department have acquired the Novell Linux Desktop which is based on Suse 9.0 with a Gnome Desktop for evaluation with a view to moving some users off the Microsoft Operating Systems. I have identified that we need to be able to run Foxcae and the Aim*Historian management tools in order to move away from the Microsoft OS that we are currently using. The proposal is to run these applications with "wine" on linux or with a utility such as "win4lin". Can this work? Has this been before? Regards Ashley Davey Systems Engineer African Products (Pty) Ltd Gauteng Republic of South Africa Tel : +27 11 458 5342 Fax : +27 11 458 5343 Mobile: +27 83 4535169 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave