Lieber Michael,
as I see it it is not realistic to assume that comercial companies
will rewrite software such as SciFinder/Beilstein software for LINUX.

The chemistry LINUX community should concentrate to explore the
capabilities of the windows wemulations, such as WINE which comes
in different varieties.
If ms word, powerpoint and excel can be run on a LINUX system easily
using the wine emulatopr from crossover, why should it not be possible
- at least in principle - to run chemistry related Programs on a
LINUX system using WINE?

best wishes

Ulli


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