Yeah, that's right! If you don't read the windower forums, or keep up with the wine appdb, FFXI has now been upgraded to Bronze status. That means it works.
Apparently someone has gotten it up to near full playability and is working on a guide to get it working on ubuntu. Unfortunately it isn't working with windower right now, but I believe he's working on that as well. Once you get the game working, windower should flow in with it rather easily, as far as I know.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...rsion&iId=2739
http://forums.windower.net/index.php?showtopic=13196
As for me, this is just awesome if it gets full compatability. FFXI was really the only thing keeping me on Windows, and now that this is getting ported, I can finally main Ubuntu.