> I'm currently crunching large databases. I use Win software (Stata,
> RATS, Matlab, Gauss, and occassionaly R and Mathematica). There are
> Linux and Mac versions of all this, but there's an awful amount of
> sunk capital (human and cash) in the Win versions that I'd hate to
> give up.
Have you looked into transferring your licenses to the new platform? Once you do that, shouldn't your scripts mostly work (aside from anything calling outside programs or with directory strings)?
-- Andy