On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ross Patterson wrote: > At 07:58 04/02/2003 -0500, Henry Schaffer wrote: > > >He is right, if there were an office suite that ran like Office on windows > > >available on Linux, it would be a no-brainer to switch. > > > > But I think that "almost usable" is too pessimistic. I've been using > >Star Office 6.0 on a Windows PC, and it is quite good for my uses. > > I've been using StarOffice on MS-Windows for over four years, and you're > right - it's quite good. I've got MS-Office on the same machine, and I use > StarOffice much more often. I've also been using the StarOffice-based open > source system OpenOffice.Org (what a lousy name!) on Linux for over a
Trademark problem, I believe. I move we all call it OpenOffice, and see what happens;-) > year. The experience hasn't been as positive. Obviously I don't have > MS-Office on *that* machine, but I work in an office that's pretty evenly > split between OpenOffice.Org and MS-Office users, and therein lies the > rub. If you can ignore the difficulties of getting nice fonts on Linux, > OpenOffice.Org works quite well by itself. But its interoperation with > MS-Office is patchy, although there's certainly room to blame Microsoft for > some (most?) of that. > > Having said all that, I'm not ditching OpenOffice.Org any time soon, > although I'm careful when working on files I'll have to share with my > MS-Windows co-workers. There's a SO beta right now: see www.sun.com/staroffice/ O, I check the OO site and what do I see? OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta Do your bit: try it out;-) -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
