Mike Meyer wrote:
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:34:36 -0500
Paul Gress <[email protected]> wrote:
Tomas Bodzar wrote:
OpenOffice != MS Office
Gee, I don't want to start a war, but what can you do in MS Office you
can't do in Openoffice.
Reliably share documents with people using MS-Office. OpenOffice is
better than pretty much anything but MS-Office (which isn't so hot at
this itself) than that, but it's always been an issue for me.
I can open most (~85%) MS Office ndocuments with no problems. For the
ones with problems it's just usually two things. The tables and
pictures aren't exactly located correctly, which I cleanup in a matter
of minutes by right clicking and selecting automatic sizing and font
sizing aren't exact. All the information gets through OK, it's just
minor format problems. As far as functionality, there isn't anything
you can't do.
I'm sure it's gotten better since I last looked, but templates didn't
work worth beans, and the OpenOffice generated .doc files would
sometimes lock up Windows boxes when they were loaded into MS-Office
(just some machines, but reliably on those, until someone who didn't
have this problem saved it back out).
I've never had a problem opening up templates. All the doc files I've
saved for others to open up with MS Office have never locked up. I
guess it must be much more refined. It even opens up docx files, but
will not save them. No problem, who uses that format anyway.
Besides, he also said Outlook, which could mean a lot more than just
"some form of user mail agent". It may be enough; he may need Sunbird
as well; he may need a better MAPI client; he may need a serious
enterprise suite. Without more details, it's hard to say.
Evolution is considered very similar to Outlook, but I have never used
it. Opera functions similar to Outlook also, and can import Outlook
e-mails, but also has browser function built it. Thunderbird is not
similar, but still imports Outlook e-mails.
One alternative - assuming the client hardware in question is up to it
- is VirtualBox or VMWare on the clients, running Windows as a
guest. VirtualBox on OpenSolaris is a good choice if you just want
casual use of the Windows clients. Last time I looked, VMWare was way
ahead of it if you wanted really tight integration.
He stated "this is mostly because of license issue" so running Windows
may be an issue.
There a varying web posts on Windows Programs -> Linux Programs (where
mostly Opensolaris will work also). One such link is:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
Paul
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