Hi All I recently sent an email to the developers of Taxcalc and got quite a positive reply from them. (Their full email and my emails to them are below). As you will see they currently rely on "Internet Explorer technology" for their product. Is this a complete showstopper as far as running TaxCalc with Wine? I assume they rely on having IE installed. Tony Pursell AppDB maintainer for Taxcalc ----------------------------- Dear Mr Pursell Thank you for your email. Yes, we are considering Linux and Mac OSX versions for the future and are looking into ways of doing this at the moment. Our current reliance on Internet Explorer technology does cause problems with this but, again, we are looking into other options here. Nothing will happen this year but it would be nice to think that we could offer this solution for TaxCalc 2009. If you don't mind I will keep a note of your details and contact you if and when we have this option! The summary export retains a lot of formatting settings but, CSV would be better than nothing as a fall-back. It is an interesting thought though ... I will discuss this with the other developers. It is worth noting that the screens displayed are effectively HTML and as such, if you 'drag-select' the content and paste into open office spreadsheet you may get a similar result. Thank you once again for your feedback. Kind regards Greg Case TaxCalc -----Original Message----- From: Tony Pursell [ mailto:ajp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 21 June 2008 17:32 To: Support Subject: Survey, etc I have just completed your survey. I notice that you have Linux (with Windows emulation) listed as one of the selections under operating systems. I would very much like to move over to Linux as my usual operating system but your's is one of the programs that locks me into Windows. I have tried to run TaxCalc experimentally on Ubuntu Linux using Wine, but with no success. Do you know if anyone has done this successfully? If not, would it be of interest to you to know if it can be done? -------------------------------------
