I have been using VMware for most of my windows need (though not the games) but I have stopped using it now. I have completely lost touch w/ windows. Though VMware is still installed i rarely fire it up anymore. still VMware did a good job of keeping me in touch w/ windows when i needed it. so the vote goes there.

Wine. It has made my transition from Windows so much easier.

Wine... it seems to run just about anything that I want it to (WinRAR [yeah, I'm too lazy to use unrar], Photoshop CS, Eovia Carrara 5)

Don't do much in the land of virtualization, but VMware would be it for me.

I use Crossover Office, but only to get Shockwave to work. Other than that I do not need any windows app, if I did I would still be running windows.

If you can spare the money, crossover office is by far the best. I use it when I need to fire up ms-office apps. Need speed and reliability.

I was going to say Parallels as it's cheaper than vmware and supports Macs -- you can now run Linux on a Mac (although as a Guest).

However I'd go for Vmware server as this is a FREE virtualisation product and runs Windows VM's just fine. If you don't need the features of the workstation product just download the vmware server - doesn't cost anything.

So my vote is for VMWARE SERVER.

Cheers
-K

vmware is getting better and better in time

Totally agree, wmware

Wine! It's getting better and better everyday

They're both wonderful, incredible, apps. I'd voted vmware only out of habit. People who still weren't caught by virtualization addiction should experiment the two!

When I submit a bug report, I get a notice, and status
report/explanation in reply, and because their work allows me to play vst softsynths in linux in Mepis, Ubuntu, and Fedora6, I cast my vote for wine, and will consider purchase of commercial variants later.

Jeremy, make a note. Next year, you might consider calling this Virtalization/Emu App of the Year.

wine and cedega.... I use both of them to play win games... voted for wine because it's free and in too many cases works better than cedega... I only use cedega when I'm too lazy to tweak around wine...

Currently I run 1 big server split down to 4 independent virtual servers using GSX-SERVER (VMWare) and I think it is excellent.

Wine is good but i find it unreliable and difficult to configure. I'd only use it for running Internet Explorer as I need to test web sites on IE. I find that Wine only really works with old versions of IE and whenever you do Windows update it no longer works. Normally it is faster to boot a VM than it is to tweak wine to work with new DLLs.

Furthemore, you want to set up sendmail/Qmail or any server specific demon but don't have the time/skills? I guarantee you can find an iso that will boot from VMPlayer.

Unless you are a gamer, I think VMWare is the business.