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Wednesday 21st April 2004

Filippino company claims to run Windows apps on Linux 3:37PM, Wednesday 21st April 2004

Phillippines-based start up company SpecOps Labs claims to have developed software that will allow Windows applications to run on the Linux operating system. Codenamed David (as in he who slew Goliath), the company claims that the package will be available by the end of this year.

SpecOps's website is short on specific detail but says that David 1.0 will be middleware that will seamlessly run 'most Windows applications' on Linux. It claims that, 'Working in the background, David will enable users to run their favourite programs with the look-and-feel they are familiar with.'

The company says that David simulates the WIN-Environment Subsystem, which sounds an awful lot like the software emulator WINE that has been around for a while now. However, SpecOps says it has gone one better and corrected some of the flaws in the Windows OS to make for a more stable product.

Even more intriguing is the claim that the next version will 'incorporate the operating system into the Web browser, virtually eliminating the need for an operating system eventually, except to boot the computer and launch the browser'.

Steve Malone

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