On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
Not yet ready for primetime.
>
> [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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