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Hi everyone, The project I am working on has two parts. Part 1 is data acquisition on a Solaris system. Part 2, number crunching, done already in Labview on Windows (at least, until now). The problem I hope you can help me with is with part 2. My internal customers get the rash when Windows is mentioned (they are old school, UNIX command-line intensive, engineers, who the only VI they know about, is the popular UNIX 'vi' text editor). I would like to port the number crunching and nice plots that Labview provides into Solaris, to keep them happy. I could come up with these options, which implies reuse of my existing Laview code (with some minor changes maybe): 1) Get and older Solaris Labview with application builder, so I can deploy the program to the end users... can I get it? if so, how? 2) Get a current Linux version and test it on Solaris... since Linux and Unix are so similar, I am guessing there is some hope on this. Has anyone tried this before? any opinion on this approach (maybe you are 100% positive it's worth a try, or 100% positive it won't work)? 3) I have the Internet Tookit. Reading (a little) about it, it sounds there is a way to "see" a running VI on a PC through a web browser running on another machine (only front panel). If this is true, I could potentially run my VI on Windows, and have my Windows-allergic users see the plots via a browser. Is this possible? if not, is there something similar I can do? 4) My current solution, if none of above work, would be to deploy a Windows executable (have them get over their allergy) and have it installed on a remote PC, which can be accessed using VNC. The VI would get the data (generated in part 1, under Solaris) through the network, from a UNIX path (using FTP or simple Windows drive mapping through a Samba server). I would appreciate comments about my options, and/or new options/ideas. Thanks a lot! PS: currently using Solaris 10, and Labview 8.2 for Windows