Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> En Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:41:47PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribio:
> #_ 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
> #_
>
> From Linuxberg/Tucows
>
> Updated
>
> OpenOffice - Suites - 5 Penguins
> Version: 638
> Open office is the open source release of the ever-popular Star Office
> suite.
> It includes:
> DesktopWriter (word processor)Calc (spreadsheet)Impress (presentation)Draw
> (drawing)Base (database)Mail and DiscussionSchedule and Tools (Web broswer)
>
> Open Office tries to be as compatible as possible with Microsoft Office.
> http://lyris.tucows.com/cgi-bin/nph-t.pl?U=9176&M=308716&MS=29964
I'm using OpenOffice 638 to write my Master's Dissertation here at the
University of Warwick. It hasn't failed me yet.
Also, saving in XML formats seems to save a lot of space. The XML format
of Writer 6.0 produces a file 4 times smaller than the file produced by
StarWriter 5.0. And the file produced by M$-Word is even bigger than the
StarWriter 5.0 file.
The we browser seems to have problems though. As a whole, as Ian said,
it's NYRFPT (not yet ready for prime time).
Cito
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