CCL: Chemsitry Structure Drawing Tools in Linux environment

["Derek J. Cashman" <derek.cashman*gmail.com>]

 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
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