I vote for wine, it has improved alot lately

hmm..:scratch: try to find an alternative:p

I vote Wine as a huge amount of effort has been put in recently to get rid of bugs whilst still adding huge numbers of features. It is very rare nowadays that I can't get a program to do anything on it, and a fair few work perfectly now. With the addition of the winecfg tool and different configurations for different programs, Wine has become fairly nice to use. Also, it integrates better than any emulator and allows Windows programs to be ported to Linux.

i would vote wine but, qemu with the acceleration does what i only need windows for, my mp3 player.

I am new to Win 4 Linux type apps and my first try was with WINE and I was pleasly surprised so I voted for that. I may have to try a few of the others on the list :p

Wine. it is fun playing some windows based games in a linux enviroment.

What about colinux? If one "has to run another OS", but still want linux there...

Er, Cygwin.

Oh no that's the wrong way round.
(or is it the *right* way round?)

Me, I never want win apps on linux.
But perl and a shell is useful when
I must use DOS against my will.

Wine is great
 

Wine cause it has none of the HAL and/or CPU emulation crap of anything else, and doesn't need WinDOS files like Win4Lin. Also did I mention cause it's really fast?
Plus i can play StarCraft in a window.

Wine made some impressive strides, especially in the second half of the last year...

Voted for VMWare because it can not only be used for Windows programs, but also for useful things.

The oldest one fellows. I just love it.
Can anyone give me more reasons for another one.

CX supports the accounting apps we need with our business quite well. They made the linux switch possible for us. What more can I say? (VMWare started us with the switch, but it was too resource hungry).

Wine. The guys made a good job with their last release. The second choice would be CrossOver.

crossover and wine
 

If it weren't for codeweavers, wine would probably be dead. I have been running crossover since it's first release and I think the product rocks.

The last time I looked at VMware it was way too expensive. I haven't looked into it for a few years, but last time I checked it was over $300. For that price I can dual boot thank you.