Postgrad research tools - any recommendations

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

Greetings list

I have just started a Ph.D. program and want to check out the 
availability of the following two software apps that the university uses 
on their Windows machines:

                SPSS
                EndNotes

The first is a statistical package for social science and the second is 
a bibliographic referencing system.  I am using Mendeley which does have 
a Deb package, but many of my colleagues are using EndNote and I will 
need to familiarise myself with the application just in case Mendeley 
doesn't work out as well as I would hope.

So, does anyone know whether SPSS has a Debian friendly release (or, for 
that matter, how well it might work with WINE) and ditto with EndNote?

I am familiar with R, so the question is not about an alternative 
statistical package but really about about the opportunity to use SPSS 
on a Debian testing machine.

Thanks for any thoughts.

AG