working with microsoft windows applications on ubuntu

[occupaja1]

Hi, can someone help direct me how i could install my very important windows applications on ubuntu and still work with it?

Am very despirate

[dv3500ea]

What are the names of these very important programs
try installing (apt:wine) wine (http://www.winehq.org/)
search for the applications you want to run at http://appdb.winehq.org/

[occupaja1]

Hi, can someone help direct me how i could install my very important windows applications on ubuntu and still work with it?

Am very despirate

Well thanks but how do i install this wine. Am new on ubuntu and linux in general. Am also an ict student and have been introduced to ubuntu. I seem to enjoy its stability and performance.

These programs i wish to run on this ubuntu is the sql database management system, java programming and the vb dot-net programming.

[dv3500ea]

Those particular things are programming languages and so may have a linux version (java definately does, try installing openjdk-6-jdk (apt:openjdk-6-jdk)) or have something similar. Look up monodevelop (apt:monodevelop), an IDE for languages including java and VB.NET. In general, look up the mono project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)).

[davidmohammed]

can I ask - why these are so important? If you are developing windows programs then I would suggest install virtualbox and then install windows as a virtualbox guest.

If you are just after guidance of similar linux based applications then say what you need to do.