What distros/addons to make this office setup work in Linux?

[melloman]

Presently the business is using the following software:
quickbooks pro 2000
Act 2000
Winfax pro 10
MS office2000

on a mixed 98/2000 peer to peer, on a dsl setup.

Office can be replaced with Star office, but what about the others?
Any ideas? :confused:

[bdw72]

You might want to look at wine ( www.wine.com (http://www.wine.com) ), this programs allows you to use SOME programs from your windows partition. Or there is Win4Lin which installs on the lunix partition and you also install Win98 and office and winfax etc, I am not sure of the URL ( www.netraverse.com (http://www.netraverse.com) ). The unfortunite thing is that Win4Lin is not freeware, so I do not know how well it works. Wine on the other hand takes a lot of determination to get the programs to work. Hope this helps.

[melloman]

I looked for wine.com, didn't find it, but found www.linuxwine.com (http://www.linuxwine.com) :)
I am more in the vein of finding linux/unix native programs that perform the same functions, rather than having to bastardize the OS to get it to function. I think running windows in linux can be done already, but I'm thinking if I can find a usable package to do most, then I can see about the rest.
Where is a good place to start in linux for a business suite? Keeping it linux native?