[Am-info] Philippine Company Creates Software To Run Windows Programs On Linux

[Felmon Davis]

On Sunday 25 April 2004 12:06 am, Fred Miller wrote:
> >=A0Specifically, I bought a copy of "Virtual PC for OS/2" just over
> > a year ago and it runs many OS's (I got it for Win2K and WinNT)
> > basically to be able to read MS Office docs that some people send
> > me. =A0So it's neat, and Windows runs inside a "box" on my OS/2
> > system. =A0The price of VPC was less than any flavor of
> > Windows+Office.
>
> Yes.....I knew about that, but never did run it. If I remember
> correctly, it didn't mandate a copy of 'Bloze be installed either,
> correct?

isn't it vmware in Linux that runs Windows programs by somehow=20
emulating a Windows environment?

and wasn't there a news flash last week about a kid in Israel who=20
developed a way to run Windows programs in Linux, I assume also by=20
building some kind of bubble around them?

I wonder what is special about this Philippine Co's approach?

Felmon