Re: Using OpenOffice with UniVerse/Unidata - request for U2 users to be involved
Ian Stuart wrote: Firstly, the performance of OOo is really good and we have not been able to match it with MS Office on a thin-client platform. At a customer site we have successfully migrated 45 users onto a single Intel-based server running Linux and OpenOffice for thin-client based users. This includes those users who have the RTC syndrome (resistance to change) like the executive secretaries and personal assistants. Whatever functionality may be missing in OOo that is in MS Office is obviously not used. This includes receiving and sending MS Office documents (Excel, Word, Powerpoint) to the corporate head-office who have inplemented MS Office. We have thousands of users on Universe on Linux. We ended up building our own distro of Linux to get all the features we wanted, like very good support for IBM eSeries Intel based servers. Our distro has support for things like the Serveraid Card and such built right in. We make medical office management software. We initially were going to use AbiWord as an integrated editor/word-processor, but it mostly does what we want, but OOo has turned out to be a much better solution, and opens some really big integration possiblities with Universe. What about the porting of UniVerse/UniData to Linux on the pSeries. I don't see why it isn't there already! ttyl Farrell -- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke Farrell J. McGovern Crowell Systems Linux Systems Admin.Toll Free (US and Canada) 1-800-366-4564 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crowellsystems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Using OpenOffice with UniVerse/Unidata - request for U2 users to be involved
Ian Stuart wrote: Although I have requested IBM to look at some of the issues associated with OOo and U2 it would appear that the 'not invented here' syndrome prevents them from doing anything constructive; this is not a criticism, just an observation. I am surprised though that with IBM really pushing the Linux strategy that OOo is not seen as an alternative to MS Office for Linux on the desktop. Actually, it's more of this: As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation. from: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html I don't think this is a good move...MS-Office is bloatware, and as MS patents it's XML formats (the Patent Office is so stoopid! Tomorrow, I will patent Air, and start charging everyone on Earth usage fees!), many may move away from it, if only for interoperablity sake. But that's just my personal opinions. We have someone here is is working on OOo and integrating it with our Unvierse product, Medformix under our version of Linux, MfxLinux. You can email him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] He doesn't get onto mailing lists. ttyl Farrell -- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -- Sir Arthur C. Clarke Farrell J. McGovern Crowell Systems Linux Systems Admin.Toll Free (US and Canada) 1-800-366-4564 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://crowellsystems.com -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
