[Colchester] Hello!

[Ian Snow]

Evening Russ

I too am lucky enough to get to play with Linux at work, as I admin Linux 
database, web, dns and mail servers as well as hack php and c++ admittedly 
currently on Windows but we're moving to Qt so I can code on linux and only 
have to compile and test on Windows

I've been using Linux for around a decade now, and at work on the desktop for 
the last year with Windows in a VirtualBox VM, due to this I haven't had to 
play with Wine in a commercial setting, and last used it at home to play Wow 
years ago before it irritated me too much to continue playing

I happen to be a Sage 50 developer and I suspect your mileage will vary, for 
one thing Sage UK will likely not support running Sage on top of Wine. 
It also has a Sage SData Service these days and I'm not sure how Wine handles 
windows services

Ian


> Morning All!
> 
> Just a quick message to say hello! I am a colchester resident and technical
> director at Junari Ltd based in Colchester. I am lucky enough to get play
> with Linux in my day job :)
> 
> We use Ubuntu Linux servers to host OpenERP and Django-based web
> applications for our customers, and run a KVM-based internal development
> environment.
> 
> I also use linux (ubuntu desktop) on my work laptop and my home PCs.
> 
> Unfortunately we do still use Winblows on most of our workstations in the
> office, mainly because our customers do too, and we integrate with several
> windows-based products such as Sage 50 and Outlook.
> 
> I am eager to change this at some point but I havn't really had a chance to
> experiment with Wine / Crossover to see if its feasable. Would be
> interested if anyone has any experience of using Wine in a commercial
> environment?
> 
> We are also always on the lookout for good open source developers!
> 
> Look forward to meeting any local linux people!
> 
> Russ