mrmike999 wrote: > Is this programm a viable replacement for MicroSoft Office?
As a general rule of thumb, the following are rough equivalents. * Microsoft Word: OOo Write; * Microsoft Excel: OOo Calc; * Microsoft Outlook: Not Available. Suggested options are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird; * Microsoft Powerpoint: Impress; * Microsoft Access: OOo Base, dbase clone; Can connect to SQLite, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL,amongst other database engines; * Microsoft Infopath: Not Available; Write (?) * Microsoft Visio: OOo Draw; * Microsoft Office Picture Manager; Draw (?) dBase template (?) Base Template (?); * Microsoft Publisher: OOo Write; OOo Draw. For professional quality DTP use Scribus; * Microsoft Onenote: Not available; * Microsoft Communicator; Not available: Suggested options are Pidgin; * Microsoft Interconnector; Not Available: Suggested options are LAMP; * Microsoft Frontpage: OOo HTML Editor, For professional quality web page creation use NVU, or create by hand; * Microsoft Groove: Not available: If this is P2P, then Azuerues. Otherwise it probably would be LAMP; * Microsoft Accounting: Not available: Suggested options are GnuCash, LedgerSMB; * Microsoft Entourage: Not Available. Suggested options are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird; * Microsoft Binder; Not available. * Microsoft Schedule Plus; OOo template with this functionality is no longer available. Suggested options are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird; * Microsoft Mail; Not Available. Suggested options are Evolution, Thunderbird with Lightning or Sunbird; * Microsoft Visact 2000; Not available: Suggested options are The Gimp, NVU(?); * Microsoft Photodraw; OOo Draw; * Microsoft Picture it; OOo Draw; * Microsoft Expression Web; Not available: Suggested option: LAMP; * Microsoft Front page; OOo Write/HTML Editor; * Microsoft Sharepoint services; Not available: Suggested option: LAMP; * Microsoft Office Assistant; Available, but so unannoying you won't register its presence; * Microsoft Visual Basic StarBasic, Java, Python, PERL, Ruby, etc, etc, etc; * Microsoft Visual Basic Applications The Extensions Library/Component whatever Marketing decides to call it this week; * Equation Editor; OOo Math; How compatible these components are depends upon what you use the component for. OOo can read/write most MSO File formats. The most significant MSO file formats which OOo can not read/write are for MSPublisher, and MSBinder; There are things that OOo can do, that are impossible to do with MSO. There are things that MSO can do, that are difficult to do with OOo. For most individuals, it is a viable option. For most individuals in most organizations, it is a viable option. How viable it is depends upon what functionality is required. xan jonathon Your message was sent to a public mailing list. Answers are provided by volunteers. Please send any responses you might have to the list. My anti-spam filters delete all non-list messages. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
