Hi Robert,
Don has rather unique requirements. His data sets are truly massive.
If any software handling data sets of that size has problems, I'm
sure Don will find them.
I knew about the fork when Ellison bought Sun. MySQL also forked like
Open Office, but I haven't heard anything lately about that.
I'm at the point where the cost of getting a legal upgrade to the
latest version of WPOffice is no longer a problem, so I am very happy
to stay with WP. Mostly I use it for mailings, and the mail merge
function in Word drives me crazy. I use DP to assemble multi-line
addresses, and output that as one field. The zip is in a separate
field. Word really doesn't like multi-line fields, or at least it
didn't the last time I tried. In most cases, it is easily and much
faster to do something in WP and export it as a Word file.
Rich
At 02:41 PM 12/5/2011, you wrote:
Rich
I've been happy with LibreOffice although I haven't subjected it to
particularly massive data sets. Btw, it is distinct from OpenOffice,
also free, which Oracle submitted to the Apache Software Foundation
in June. LibreOffice is built from OpenOffice by former leading
members of the OpenOffice.org Community under
<http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/>The Document
Foundation with a strong mission concerning free access to office
tools, etc.
Btw, thanks for prompting me to look into the differences between
LibreOffice and OpenOffice which leads me to drop the latter for
LibreOffice. I just wish that LibreOffice Writer would adopt the
architecture of WP and not continue that of Word.
Robert
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