Office (2K) options on Linux

[John Robson]

Have you tried either of the PC emulators you mention? - Which would you
recommend?

Since emulation seems to be the way to go for me atm

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<thp at cs.ucr.edu> wrote in message news:9me00g$54r$1 at glue.ucr.edu...
> John Robson <john.robson.remove. at remove.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> : I am just starting to migrate towards Linux (RedHat 7.1 Burned and
one
> : trial install on another machine went well).
>
> : However I do alot of work for other companies on Office
> : (EspeciallyExcel) (generally 2K) and would like to be able to do so
> : without rebooting.  AFAICT I have a few options.
>
> : One is to have a dedicated windows box and use a program such as VNC
or
> : Exceed to view it (I don't like this Idea as it gets expensive)
>
> : Another is to use WINE (Hence I post here).  Having been through a
fair
> : number of posts (both current and archived on google) I can not work
out
> : whether this is going to be easy.
>
> : The final one is to use something like VMWare.  Again I have no Idea
how
> : easy this would be.
>
> To get MS Office functionality under Linux, there are four options:
>
>  1) Use Office work-alikes, e.g., StarOffice.  [Not currently
acceptable
>     for collaborative document development.]
>
>  2) Use a Windows emulator, namely WINE.  [Not ready to run Office in
>     a production mode, and won't be any time soon.]
>
>  3) Use a PC emulator, e.g., VMware or Win4Lin.  [Acceptable for most
>     purposes.]
>
>  4) Run Office on a remote Windows or Mac system, e.g., via VNC,
Citrix,
>     Win2K TSE, etc.  [???]
>
> It would be helpful if there were a FAQ and/or newsgroup that covered
this
> general topic, since a lot of people face the same problem.
>
> Tom Payne
>