Out of curiosity, did this past week's meeting cover VM-Ware, or will I
be lucky enough to get a chance to make it to another meeting in which
it will be covered?

In using Windows apps that have not yet been ported over to Linux, would
I be better off running Wine or VM-Ware, or a combination of the two? 
I'm not very familiar with either one, but in looking at Wine's
database, some of the programs that I have aren't supported under it.  I
do have the Wine admin handbook, but have yet to read it.

I like the idea of running VM-Ware because, if I understand this
correctly, it's a Windows install on top of Linux.  Yet, on the other
hand, I've also heard of a lot of instability with VM-Ware.

Could anyone share some insight on some of the differences between the
two, and make a recommendation of what might best be suited to my
needs?  Some of the apps that I'm running use a lot of Active-X. Or is
it Direct-X?  So hard to remember which of the two it is...  To many X's
and E's in today's terminology.

Thanks,

Shawn