Wine?

[Bill]

After reading all the list mail on Unity and seeing several people have 
been using nothing but Linux I have to ask about resolving an issue that 
has prevented me from going to Linux full time.

I have several servers running nothing but Ubuntu Server. My Netbook 
runs Ubuntu 10.10 but my desktop runs Win7 Ultimate with Cigwin loaded. 
My problem is I would love to get rid of Winblows and go Ubuntu full 
time  but there are three or four programs that prevent me from doing this.

I have a small business I run out of my home (Custom built fishing 
rods). I use Quickbooks pro 2011 to run my business. I use Quicken 
Premier 2010 for my home finances. I also use Adobe premier for video 
editing and Sony Soundforge for audio editing. I have not been able to 
get any of these to work under Wine. Maybe virtual box would work 
better. I dont want to reinstall software on my main desktop to find 
out. Wondering if anyone here has been able to run any of those apps 
under Wine?

My hardware is not an issue with an AMD X6 3.2G using 4G ram, ASUS MB, 
300G Raptor drive and 3 1T storage drives. I use two EVGA 9800GT 1G 
cards to run two 22" and one 28" monitors.

I have looked at some of the Linux equivalents to these programs but 
they really dont come close to what the Win versions do. Linux video 
editing is still to complicated for the higher end programs like 
Cinrella. My audio issues mainly come from getting audio to rip music 
from streaming sources. I  can use Audacity for my Vinyl to digital needs.

Any suggestions would be appreciated on how to get these apps to run 
without blowing up on Linux would be greatly appreciated.