For such sporadic use, there is no need to buy anything in any modern Linux, just try KVM, the Kernel Virtual Machine, and run the M$ crap inside a box, just like VMware, but without the proprietary flavor and the usual upgrade headaches of the proprietary modules it needs to run. »

A very nice article. Makes me eager to have PG 8.3 running ASAP. A minor glitch: the XML examples are total gibberish in Firefox and Konqueror (this means probably Safari, too). »