Hi everyone,
With all this talk about WP, while I was writing an email off list to Rich, I thought about another group I still belong to. We are an WordPerfect user group, of sorts in Sydney, the AWPP (Association of WordPerfect Professionals Inc), we are about to celebrate our 20th year together and having our year end dinner this Saturday. When it was formed our constitution stipulated the requirements for membership were that you had to pass the WordPerfect Certification exam, or when that finished, an amendment was to demonstrate to the group that you had equivalent abilities. Actually since the first induction of members we have not had a single new member, but fortunately we still have most of the original ones. None of us really uses WP or DP, PlanPerfect, DrawPerfect etc anymore, I am the only one really with any connection with some websites running web enabled DP, and one Microsoft Access / WordPerfect 12 application still in operation. I thought I would throw this in, because I hope even as people in this DP mailing group gradually fade away as the use of DP further diminishes, as it will with the complications brought by the 64-bit OS's, that I hope that we still get to communicate and stay connected via this group. I have only been an active member for about 10 years, but in that time have made some very good friendship, and met some great people at the conference in 2004, met visitors from here to Australia and visited people when I could when I was oversees. I would like to think that this can continue. I also wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone the greeting of the season, of whatever flavour those seasonal celebrations may be. Brian _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Bragonje Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011 7:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Antw: Re: Which WP version to use with DP? 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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