<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>And crossover office has a success matrix for various applications. <br><br><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Geoffrey Myers</span></div><div><br>On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Greg</span><br><span></span><br><span>Zorin is good replacement especially with Wine and PlayOnLinux installed. It is Ubuntu based so it has plenty of packages in the repository.</span><br><span></span><br><span>An alternate is Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop. It seems to be fairly close to Windows XP/7 that most Windows users can easily make the transition.</span><br><span></span><br><span>I do not if the accounting software will run well with Wine but I would try it. If it does not, the commercial version of Wine (Crossover from CodeWeavers) might do better. Even if they had to purchase a copy of the commercial version for $60.00 it will be cheaper overall. I did not find Business Vision listed on CodeWeavers.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Jay</span><br><span>On 03/21/2014 12:29 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>OK, so M$ puts a steak in the heart of XP next month.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Unfortunately, my office and most of our customers are still running Win XP, through Win 7 downgrade option.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>So, I am looking at options. I saw an article on Zorin OS the other day as a look alike and pretty much work alike replacement for XP with Wine and PlayOnLinux built in. Maybe I could use this to "wean" the boss off of Windows.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>No need to flame on M$, I just looking for suggestions on a safe/easy transition out the Windows world that can run on 5 year old hardware. Any other suggestions for a platform move that could still run Windows apps (mostly Business Vision accounting software) under Linux, hopefully with minimal disruption?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Greg Clifton</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Jay Lozier</span><br><span><a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Ale mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></span><br><span>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</span><br><span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>