>I was able to get VFP 8.0 to work using wine. But I never used it at a client site. The coolest thing was I was able to setup a VNC (and a NX) connection from linux (also windows) which I started five sessions. It actually ran faster. Mostly because the data access was local. Of course this was on the local lan. I thought it would be the best solution to the license issues. The only issue of course was the server requirements- wine uses a lot of resources. I ran a commerical accounting system without any problems. Mixing Linux clients with Windows (using samba) seem to work but I didn't really check everything. So it's real - but may not scale well. My guess is running virual OS software might be a better solution.

way too cool! samba - that guy never dies!

Actually, it reminds me more of the Delphi IDE way setting up data access. Next step try to write something!

Delphi runs on UNIX too - doesn't it? I've chewed it geeks in the hall when I worked in a real office building. They were Aussies - and were DELPHIing on - or maybe [just] to Linux containers.