"this software is designed to run the following: MS Word Lotus Notes Quicken"
You really have two tasks at hand. 1. Running some windows apps 2. Moving People off of Windows Apps
To reach these goals you will only need to support a limited number of software configs. I will propose my list with some suggestions. Your top 10 list should be something like this and during the install or post install you should offer the user the option to "Upgrade" these apps.
1. Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.) 2. Internet Explorer. 3. AOL 4. TuboTax 5. Quicken/QuickBooks 6. Lotus Notes 7. All of the P2P software 8. Juno 9. Act 10. The Palm Desktop
1. StarOffice/KOffice (Bitch because of no Outlook clone) 2. Mozilla/Konq (Auto Import of Favorites?) 3. Wine+AOL (Intergrate with Mozilla) 4. Wine+TuboTax/Moz? 5. Wine+Quicken/QuickBooks? 6. Wine+Lotus Notes 7. Wine+All of the P2P software/Native P2P Software 8. Wine+Juno/Moz? 9. Wine+Act 10. Wine+The Palm Desktop
IMHO if this is the type of plan you have in mind. You should set your development team to do regression testing on every api these programs use...I dont know how much more the wine developers can do for you but I am sure that if they break something that should already work, they will try to fix it.
On a Side Note: One thing that Wine/Lindows and Reactos will need is to be able to run alot of the newer programs with tighter Mozzila/NS intigration. This was discussed a little during James's presentation on the Jscript.dll interface to Seamonkey. Some of the newer software loads Internet Explorers MSHTML.DLL for rendering and I belive that this software with a little help from wine could run better with tigher Mozilla Intergration.
Thanks Steven Edwards
Think Outside the Box.
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