PROJECT: Windows on Linux

If you have a Windows application that has outlasted its terminal servers, or if you need a Windows desktop for limited applications, it might be worthwhile to consider using a Linux desktop with WINE instead.  WINE provides a Windows runtime environment on top of Linux.  It as well as Linux is free, so it‘s an economical choice for scaling out application availability.  

Even if you’ve heard of WINE, you might not realize that you can make WINE sessions available on headless servers via something like xrdp.  That means you can use a cloud provider‘s Linux offerings to inexpensively roll out desktops that include Windows applications on WINE.