Well, I use both. Big advantage of Applix: You can start
everything separately, and it starts each new document (word,
spreadsheet, presentation) in it's own window, so you can move it
around. It feels more "unixy" - lots of little programs doing
something well vs the monolithic MS approach that SO uses.
Disadvantages: doesn't write to MS formats (reads from them, writes
to standard formats that MS reads like RTF). Applix Presents is
nowhere near as nice as StarOffice Presentation, and does not read
.ppt files.
Of course, my favorite spreadsheet is gnumeric, & I like Abiword as
well (although it has a ways to go). If you're doing ASCII/HTML,
Emacs, vi, pico should work just fine.
my $0.02 worth.
jeff
> My question is, has anyone used both and can give a brief
> analysis of the benefits of Applixware? StarOffice is pretty much
> a beast and I hate the default occupy the whole screen with our
> "desktop"
> approach, but it does what I need...
>
> There is something to be said for supporting companies brave
> enough to offer and support software. Even though it is only a $40
> investment, I need to be able to justify it to myself...
>
> If anyone can list some reasons why AW is better than SO, I'd
> be grateful... I know they have a Java based Anywhere version, but I'm
> not likely to run it at home and so it isn't a good demonstration of
> their binaries performance...
>
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