For future reference, I can give a pretty good test case for an app that runs (well, initializes) much slower under Wine than under Windows - Enterprise Architect (http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/index.html). There is a 30 day free trial download available. I *think* the issues a a great deal of back-and-forth between the application and Wine as the app creates a large amount of GUI objects and resources.
