[K12OSN] Shockwave on LInux? w/o spending $1000?

[David Trask]

I don't think of it as money down the drain at all, but I don't need the
total functionality of Crossover Office....you used to have a product
called Crossover plugin....that's all I need....I simply want some plugins
to work with Firefox on K12LTSP that don't currently work.  If I got
Crossover Pro...how does the licensing scheme work...and will it work
multi-user?  I basically would need 25 licenses to cover my lab and a
couple other stations concurrently as 99% of what we use Shockwave plugin
for is done in the lab.  Flash works fine and that covers a LOT of what we
use....I just want that little extra.  I'm trying to do some stuff on
Netsmartzkids.org  and a few things simply won't work...I'm not 100% sure
that it's shockwave, but a lot of what I run into is.  Ideas? 
Recommendations?

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Wednesday, October 05, 2005 at 7:12 AM +0000 wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>You shouldn't need the Server Edition for a K12LTSP set up;
>the 'Professional' version works great with LTSP.
>
>Further, we have pretty aggresive educational pricing
>and volume discounts.
>
>With all that said, I suspect that regular Wine would
>be able to run the standalone shockwave player without
>trouble.  Getting it to work inside the browser, though;
>that would be hard.  The free tools for doing that
>(Aktion! and a few others) really haven't been kept up.
>
>Also, you should be sure to test the Shockwave
>apps you need with our trial version; Shockwave is a tricky
>beast, and although we run a lot of it, we don't
>run it all.
>
>As a final plug, we do encourage folks to think of it
>not as money down the drain, but instead as money spent
>to support the broader community.  We're pretty efficient
>at turning cash into patches against Wine; I think you'd
>find a lot of the improvements in Wine these past 5 years
>can be traced back to the financial support our customers
>have given us.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jeremy
>
>David Trask wrote:
>> Anyone know of a way to get shockwave running on K12LTSP without
>shelling
>> out a grand to buy the server version of Codeweaver's crossover office?
>> They used to have the crossover plugin, but now I can't find it and I'm
>> not sure it works multi-user anyway.  Any ideas?  Being able to run
>> Shockwave for some education sites would make everything complete.  Is
>> there a WINE method?
>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100