[ale] Best Desktop Env or Distro for Windows users?

[Irv Mullins]

On Wednesday 21 August 2002 12:40 pm, you wrote:

> Of course, this all depends on whether or not there is an essential
> application that *only* runs on windows that the employee needs.  In this
> case, it would of course be necessary to provide access to that program,
> but you can still do this and run Linux terminals too.

Example: UPS provides shipping software, which most businesses use.
Several employees need to access that software.
It won't run on Linux, UPS shows no interest in producing a Linux version.
Wine or Win4Lin don't help.

What's your solution?

Irv



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