Corel Dropping WINE?

Nathan Ehresman writes "According to this "Corel Corporation will use GraphOn's Bridges(TM) software to allow access to Windows applications from Corel's(R) Linux desktops." Does this mean Corel is dropping support of WINE? " I sure hope not. They've put a lot of effort in to the project, and I think they raised a lot of peoples hopes and expectations...

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Do You Trust GraphOn?

[Ledge Kindred]

These guys have been making a lot of funny press releases lately, like being involved with the claim that China was proclaiming Linux the "Official OS of China" or their more recent one where they claim to have the patent on any technology that allows remote display of Windows apps on UNIX-like systems.

One can't quite help but suspect these guys might be trying to ride some of the current publicity around Linux, especially that generated by Comdex.

I'd personally wait until Corel makes some sort of announcement themselves before taking this one from GraphOn with anything but a large grain of salt.

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Yipes! No, that's not what it does!

[Ami Ganguli]

Corel is using Wine to port their applications to Linux. I've always assumed (perhaps wrongly) that they weren't interested in Windows emulation, just porting their own apps using the Wine API.

GraphOn produces networking products, not Windows emulation. This is basically a Windows version of X-Windows.

So:

To port Corel Office to Linux -> Wine

To run Windows apps remotely with the display on a Linux box -> GraphOn

To run Windows apps locally on a Linux box -> Wine