From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you just want to keep track of your checkbook and charges, why use
quicken at all? Any simple database program can do that. I do it with
a simple database I made a dozen or more years ago. I've migrated it
through several different DB engines as things changed. It works fine.
Very little of what I do today with image processing was anywhere near
as easy and productive to do in PS 4. Same for my writing and document
creation comparing AppleWorks and Pages.
I've downloaded Open Office from OpenOffice.org as an alternative to
Microsoft Office.
I do have licenses for Office 2003 (I think it is), and could install
that IF I wanted to, but Open Office is FREEWARE, and does just about
everything MS Office does and can produce compatible output.
There are a couple of things it does different that I'm still getting
used to, but overall, I'm very pleased with the performance ... and
definitely pleased with the price.
Looks like a new version was released this month with a native OS-X port.
I only use Calc & Writer, but there are a bunch of other components. The
presentation program Impress can output to Adobe Flash SWF files or PDF
files, so if I ever need to do a slide-show presentation again ...
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