The article talks about the Wine project and its potential impact in the industry, about its coordinator, Alexandre Julliard, and about the funding that Hal Bennett, an independent Silicon Valley marketing executive, is raising for the Wine project. Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine works on most popular Intel Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
Wine comes with complete sources, documentation and examples and is freely redistributable.