[CentOS] Running commercial softwares on CentOS

[John R Pierce]

Rahul Tidke wrote:
> I agree with above facts. But, how do Red Hat provides interoperability in
> its desktop edition http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/ ? It says that it
> supports third party apps and MS apps/environment. What software and
> technologies are used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the
> possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been
> using CentOS as a server since very long time.
>   

that article's mostly references Office document compatibility which 
presumably is via OpenOffice.

the passing reference to cad/cam software is probably referring to 
native (l)Unix  cad/cam