instead of bein my usual c*cky b*st*rd self i will say the next: thank you scythe
there is indeed overhead of running it in WINE, but i do not know what kind of windows api calls are made from ADNM to the database or the database on the WINE system which could potentially crash it.....
if you would go with the WINE sollution i would suggest to test it for at least a month with several clients connecting and every now and then make manual updates (at a client tell it to update i mean with that) to see what happens and what the performance is.....
goodluck if u read this and go for it and let us know
(maybe by the end of the year i will have a virtual test enviroment on blade machines which i can test a lot with
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