well, first of all, no version of linux is truly ready for the corporate
user in terms of desktop computing and certainly not a consulting company
full of marketing and sales professionals who pretty much know just enough
to break anything they touch yet freak out when one of linux's 'undocumented
features' shows up in the form of a screen that doesnt draw correctly or
asked you to unpack a .tar file to install a poorly documented IM client.
secondly, sure--OO runs fine on my computer too-until i start getting into
50 - 60 pages of a book with a dozen styles and a bunch of screen captures.
its good for a proposal or a white paper, but not the creation of a book,
which Word does somewhat clumsily but without crashing.
finally, W2K? what color is the sky on your planet?
ill keep OO on my computer and update it as new builds come out and continue
to experiment with it. once it passes my externally imposed metrics, ill run
another test/POC to see if its ready for prime time. i hope its soon,
because im no fan of Word, WP, or Wordpad, and aside from the shortcomings
with long docs, OO is a leaner, cleaner, product. and you cant beat the
price!
kip
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Frayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [social] no more OO here
Now, now! OOo runs just fine on my crappy Dell laptop, dual-booting in
both W2K and SuSE 9.
Rigel wrote:
Thanks for the trial run Kip. We really appreciate and hope that as
OOo progresses it will even be able to run on crappy Dell machines.
Three cheers for open source anyway!
Rigel
On 1/26/06, kip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey all
I had to move my group off OO as it just didnt cut it with the doc
group.
Too bad--it's a sweet suite and elegantly clean and simple in
appearance.
But it was Crash City on all our Dell desktops and Dell and Gateway
laptops.
I will try again in 6 months (or whenever I see the problems with
working
with larger docs addressed).
I'm just SO tired of monster footprints, too many features, big files,
and
dated, ugly, not-friendly UIs as found withOffice, WP, and Adobe. I'm
not
happy about it, but my POC with OO failed to meet metrics and I ended up
having to deliver in Word.
kip
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Alan Frayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
