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CodeWeavers Release Server Version Of CrossOver

Posted by Hemos on from the break-on-through-to-the-other-side dept.

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.""

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  1. so what by b17bmbr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you still pay per seat licenses for office, are locked into closed formats, and by EULA, can't run office XP on anything but windows OS. i'm more impressed by the work at transgaming. getting games onto linux will spur linux desktop growth at home. crossover is a great project, but it does little to promote linux. sorry.

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  2. Terminal/thin client computing isnt easy. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And the licensing isn't this easy either. You still have to pay for a license for EVERY single User that connects for EACH piece of software you are hosting. If you don't believe me ask the BSAA