The reason CodeWeavers can do this, of course, is because Apple Computer’s Mac OS X operating system is based on top of the BSD variant of Unix, which is very similar to Linux in most of the important features and APIs. Now that Mac OS X will be on Intel iron, creating a version of CrossOver for Mac OS X is not that tough. Because of the differences between the Power and Intel architectures, creating a version of CrossOver that could run the binaries of X86 applications on Power iron is pretty tough.
While CodeWeavers was touting its future CrossOver products for the Apple line, it will be interesting to see if Apple just goes the obvious route and licenses Microsoft Corp’s Virtual Server, VMware’s ESX Server, or uses the open source Xen virtual machine to allow Windows applications to run natively on the X64 iron and be done with it.
