CodeWeavers Release Server Version Of CrossOver

Jeremy White writes: CodeWeavers has just launched the Server Edition of CrossOver Office. Server Edition provides Windows applications like Microsoft Office to thin clients and previously unreachable platforms like Solaris/SPARC. It's designed to compete directly with Citrix and Windows Terminal Server solutions, primarily on price (watch that TCO drop, baby). The most delicious irony will come when we release a Windows client, and we start serving Windows applications to a Windows desktop through a Linux server.""

Comments

What are the Microsoft licensing requirements?

[burgburgburg]

First off, do they allow this sort of distribution? If so, what sort of a license does one buy?

Of course, the cynic in me would enquire as to how long people think it will be before they explicitly forbid this sort of thing.

Crossover Office Rocks!

[u-235-sentinel]

I've been using crossover office for a month and already love it!

Basically I was not allowed to pop/imap into the exchange 5.5 server and have been running vmware with win2k/office. vmware is great however running win2k under linux was terribly slow. Now I simply run outlook under linux/crossover and life is good. Outlook under Linux is VERY fast!

I strongly recommend their products. I'll be keeping an eye on them in the future.

Re:You still need an office license for every clie

[Soko]

Very true - if you need to buy any more licenses, that is. This software will allow you to do two things:

1 - use the Office licenses you already have in perpetuity. No Licensing 6.0 style "software as a service" pay-me-now-and-pay-me-later is needed - it is, after all, Linux.

2 - pool the Office licenses you have, making better use of a valuable resource. Say you have 100 employees and 70 Office licenses. You can pool those 70 licenses on Crossover Office Server, and likely keep every one of your users happy. Not everyone has Word/Excel/Access open all of the time, so it makes very good sense to pool them in this way.

Soko