From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Oct 5 16:36:00 2011 From: "Derek J. Cashman derek.cashman(a)gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Chemsitry Structure Drawing Tools in Linux environment Message-Id: <-45584-111005134405-12312-0R3agrqJ/SLf/diR5qL7hg]-[server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Derek J. Cashman" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 13:43:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: "Derek J. Cashman" [derek.cashman-x-gmail.com] > We would like to move from WNIDOWS to LINUX platform. > > As you may know that the Chemistry structure drawing tools, viz ChemDraw  and ISIS Draw, which are supported only by WINDOWS and not by LINUX.  We would like to know the possibilities of working with these softwares in linux environment. Alternately, are there any equivalent softwares available in the market which have all the features similar to ChemDraw and ISISDraw. > > Thank you very much in advance for your replies. If you have a license for the Windows version of ChemDraw and you don't want to give it up by switching to Linux, you don't have to. Just run Windows virtually inside of Linux: http://www.vmware.com/ It works quite well for running Microsoft Office applications on a Linux workstation as well. Plus, there's a version of VMware for Mac OS X as well (though you don't need it to run MS Office on a Mac since there's a native Mac version available). I've been using VMware for several years now, and it's quite stable for those few yet necessary Windows apps that you just can't live without,. . . Derek J. Cashman, Ph.D. derek.cashman^gmail.com "A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a publishable, scientific paper."