Just for anecdotal evidence, I use Picasa a lot on RHEL5x and previously on
RHEL4x (Picasa for linux really is running under wine, packaged just for
Picasa's use).

Only two minor issues:

	sending photos through e-mail breaks when I use mutt because of the
	spaces in the pathnames

	I have to work around the memory mapping issue with wine and modern
	distros:
		http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem

You could perhaps reduce the priority with a wine wrapper script.  I don't
run this on servers, only on a desktop.  YMMV.

Regards,
Dan W.

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:21:32PM -0500, Ken Teh wrote:
> Are they any problems running the wine emulator on SL5x?  I recall wine
> used to be part of RedHat's distributions.  But, I dont see it in SL5x. Is
> or was there a reason why it was left out? It appears to be part of the
> EPEL repo which I am not familiar with.
> 
> One of my users wants it on a server.  I'm reluctant to install it if it
> will hang up the server.  I've never used it myself.  I've played around
> with VMWare and while it works, there were the occasional hiccups. Which
> is ok if it's your own machine.  Not so good on a multi-user server.
> 
> I'd appreciate any advice.  Thanks!