speaking of starOffice, what's the status of the openOffice project of Sun? Won't
this be a better alternative to MS-Office since
1) it's open source
2) the file formats are also in OSS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> If for some reason StarOffice cannot be used, are there utilities out
>there
>> that can convert existing MS Office files to something usable in linux?
>
>AFAIK, StarOffice 5.2 can read/write/execute different formats especially
>the MS's .doc, .xls, and .pps. No problem with StarOffice 5.2 it's also
>free.
>
>> Example: these government offices have tons of excel, powerpoint, and word
>> files that they now want to use in their new opensource desktops and for
>> some reason wala silang StarOffice; what do they do?
>
>That's why if we can make a PLUG Linux distro for x86 Desktops, it should
>have a StarOffice 5.2 already and no need to include some miscellaneous
>packages.
>
>> Just thinking out loud. These conversion utilities could make good open
>> source projects.
>
>Yeah, it is! = )
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