James E. Pearman, P.E. wrote: > I am a long time Office Suite user including MS, WP & Lotus. I just > discovered Open Office and put it on my new machine build at home (XP > Pro 64 bit running on an ASUS Crosshair MB with an AMD Opteron 1218 > Dual Core 2.6 MHZ Direct Connect Hypertransport CPU) ... RIGHT OUT OF > THE GATE ... AWESOME!!! I haven't used it a lot yet, but the first > thing I saw was Open Office isn't OVERBLOATED like MS, WP & Lotus > have all become. Open Office seems to be a lean, mean feature packed > Office Suite. So far I'm very impressed and I'd like to throw my hat > into the ring to see if I can help in any way. Please see the > following comments;I could likely serve as a Beta tester if that > would help. Not too sure if I'd be particularly helpful as an ALPHA > tester, but could probably be helpful as a Beta tester.I am a > Mechanical Engineer and a heavy user of large complex spreadsheets. > We also do a lot of empirical testing that we need to interpolate > data from curves for use in these spreadsheets. A serious > shortcoming of MS Excel, WP Quattro & Lotus 123 is Interpolation (not > curve fit and least squares). I found a piece of freeware called > xtrfun from http://www.xlxtrfun.com that I have found incredibly > useful for interpolating from our empirical data. Would you consider > incorporating this?Lastly, have you considered bringing out something > like MS Outlook with your Open Office Suite? I would love to see you > add that with one minor caveat. MS Outlook is not especially > friendly with Mail Merge and in fact is really clunky. If you do > decide to do something similar to MS Outlook, perhaps you could make > it user friendly with Mail Merge to interface with Open Office > Writer.That's all I can pester you with for now. Just get back to me > when you can and let me know.THANK YOU!Jim
Thanks for your offer, helping as a tester is a good way to support the project. In case you are interested to join OOo testing please go to the qa.openoffice.org website. There you should find all necessary instructions. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
