LiMux' "Wine-Keller"

The city of Munich's project LiMux is currently migrating around 14 000 PCs to the Linux (Debian) operating system. In the process, many proprietary and highly specialized applications need to be analyzed for their compatibility with Linux/Wine. Robert Jähne (robertDOTjaehne@muenchen.de) is working for Munich and taking care of the better part of those analysis; ITOMIG (Stefan Munz, DavidGümbel) has been contracted for consulting and technical support of the software migration process.

Application List

This is a list of Munich's programs that will undergo analysis for compatibility with Linux/Wine. Please note that not all programs are equally important for Munich. However, this list should give a good idea about the requirements of a larger administration when it comes to running their software under Linux and Wine.

In the table below, the product name is a link to the appdb entry, and the vendor name is a link to the vendor's page about the product.

Here's the current high-priority list:

• Product	Vendor	Notes
  NSM 8	NetSupport Software	Poor performance
  GEOInfo	Städtisches Vermessungsamt München	bugs 6149 , 8492, 10243, 9886, 10013 duplicate of 2624, (see notes)
  OPAS	Wölbitsch u. Partner KG	bug 9057, 9969 , 9970 (see notes)
  Einnahmenbuchhaltung 3.0		Works!
  WS-FTP	Ipswitch	Works!
  MS Project		Works with crossover
  Bonner Katalog	K.G.Saur, German Library	Works? (see notes)

And here are other apps their users expressed interest in:

• Product	Vendor	Notes
  ABBA 5
  ABZ
  Indesign	Adobe
  Acrobat Pro 5 and 6	Adobe
  Adressmanager
  DXF-Konverter
  Faust 5.0	Land Software-Entwicklung
  FIN-View	GUC
  Formflow	Adobe/Jetview/Delrina
  GEOSI	IDC EDV GmbH
  GIS Bau
  GP-Untis	Gruber & Petters Software	Works! (except for email and login?)
  Haufe Rechtssprechung	Haufe (check URL)
  S-HOAI	Kobold Management Systeme GmbH
  LABBASE	Aj Blomesystem GmbH / Analytik Jena
  MegaCAD	Megatech Software GmbH
  NIGRAWIN	Trukk-Soft
  Normica Viewer 1.7	Normica
  Photoshop	Adobe
  |SIS-CD
  Visio 2000	Microsoft	works with crossover
  Voloview 2.01	Autodesk	works with wine 1.1.8
  Zwangsvollstreckung

Apps notes

GEOInfo: The CD doesn't provide MFC40.dll and threed32.ocx. However they can be easily found in the Internet. After installing the software in must be run in the correct directory - e.g. by using wine start on the Start Menu link file (in C:\Windows\profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\GeoInfo NT Muenchen)

OPAS: Requires Wine 0.9.47. Currently must be run in a virtual desktop as in most window managers in the calendar window the tooltip control will get the focus what will break OPAS. If killed too many times the app may fail to start with an error dialog that it cannot create a temporary file - one must clean C:\windows\temp for it to run.

Bonner Katalog: needs to be started with correct command line arguments. E.g. use wine start on the Start Menu link file (in C:\Windows\profiles\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Bonner Katalog)