Wine & Office 97

[Eberhard Roloff]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Gunawan wrote:
> 
>> Today they can't install win 98 se on new PC due to hardware driver problem.
>> So if they can install MS Access 97 on Ubuntu, they would be glad.
> 
> You should consider a virtual machine, in that case.  If you're lucky,
> it will abstract away the hardware incompatibility and let you run
> Windows on Ubuntu full-time.
> 
> Matt Flaschen
> 
Yes I was using win 98se under vmware and office 97 respectively access
97 is not a problem. The only drawback:
Since Win 9.x by design consumes 100% of your CPU, even when the OS is
idle, anything outside your vmware session will be very slow. Maybe a
dual processor cpu can help here. ;-))

But if all you need will happen inside your win 98se, then you will be fine.

Furhermore OpenOffice BAse has come a long way since it was first
introduced. If you will be free to suggest superior solutions, that
might also be worth a try.


kind regards
Eberhard