My gut feel is that virtualization is going to be the way to go instead of things like WINE - I can’t speak from personal experience but from a armchair quarterback perspective doesn’t it seem like it would be easier (albeit more expensive) to run a virtual windows under linux. My understanding also is that the chip manufacturers are putting all kinds of hardware support in for hypervisors so that we’ll soon be seeing awesome performance with Virtual OS’s.
Yeah, that thought has crossed my mind before.
But there are plenty of people out there with older hardware that won’t do virtualization, and WINE continually gets easier to install and configure.
Everything has it’s place.