Hi:
I see that we have taken a thread more about
strategy and marketing here, and I hope
rebol team people are reading this.
Interesting thing coming up here... I think.
Koffice (KDE answer to Microsoft Office)
is supposed to provide hooks to a number of
languages, rather than a proprietory VBA
as does MS-Office.
Perhaps Carl and folks should consider looking
into this and perhaps trying to make sure that
Koffice provides such "hooks" for rebol.
I could sure "dig it".
It is reasonable to speculate that in the next
year, in the area that I live in we will see a number
of networks of small organizations running
Windows on top of Linux through something
like Win4Lin. With KOffice there would then
be a cheaper alternative to Microsoft's expensive
Office license. It then follows that a considerable
amount of small-module programming would happen.
I'm already putting together General Purpose modules
for Ms-Access using VBA. I'd rather be doing that
in rebol!
:)
-Tim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 9/24/2000 at 6:50 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I think that if there were full attention to these details it would
> be very successful, as there is a lot to like about the product. It is
> surprisingly useful for web page design, for example, but the weird
> aspects made me leave it after a while.
>
> StarOffice's greatest strength and weakness is the tight integration
> between applications. On one hand, the applications can work together
> in surprizing and useful ways. On the other, it works against the idea
> of someone assembiling their own "best of breed" suite of applicatoins.
> But it would seem a good choice where people are trying hard to
> standardize their corporate desktops.
>
> To give the devil its due, I think the Win32 desktop is a marvelous
> example of integrating applications into a useful work environment.
> (Now, if only the underlying OS wasn't broken.)
>
> -Ted.
