I was reading about yet another LTSP project the other day, and idly thinking about making the next upgrade at the law office a move to LTSP, when I was brought up short by recalling that they all run Windows, however comfortable I've become in KDE.

There are going to be a couple of major showstoppers if I try to convert someone there to Linux. One is a special propietary sort of word processing package that handles Court Reporter Transcripts, but I think it might run under Wine.

The big problem is that several courts require documents to be submitted in Word Perfect format, and last I checked OpenOffice was not even inporting WP, let alone saving a workable output.

I seem to remember that in order to run WP under Linux, Corell had some sort of full Windows emulation set up, where you had to install Linux, Windows, Wine, WP, and maybe something else.

Has anybody worked with WP on a linux platform? How much of a pain is it? Does it require a state-of-the-art workstation to handle all the emulation load or will it run on a minimal LTSP setup?

(I remember when WP ran on a dedicated machine the size of an office desk with return. It's never really been happy unless it could have the whole computer to itself.)