On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:35:45AM -0400, William Hooper wrote: > Jerome R. Westrick said: > > If MS-Office is all you need then there is a product > > called cross-over-office or something like that... > > > > It allows you to run M$-Office under linux workstation itself... > > Codeweavers also has "CrossOver Office Server Edition" which sounds like > it would fit the bill (only install MS Office on the server).
Maybe I should have included some more info about the company system... We started only last year with a bunch of older PCs. I'm now looking to replace them with newer stuff. We started with Linux desktops and servers and MS Office + crossover office (currently at version 2.1). This is not a "perfect" solution, since a lot of features and office versions don't work. We have a lot of shared document development with external partners who are still under the dark influence of the Devil ;-). We're now evaluating our current system and the conclusion is that cxoffice makes msoffice very slow and also breaks quite a few features we need (equation editor, file saving problems, OLE actions, etc.) In a perfect world, there would be a Linux native program that can work perfectly together with all msoffice documents, however, OpenOffice is the closest candidate and it only works for about 90% of the features, breaking nearly all the documents we have since they typically use those features that aren't supported very well. I believe now that a solution using VNC probably also won't work, since the M$ license doesn't allow you to use it like that. Citrix might be ok, but as was said already, too expensive. I feel like I'm stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place, The boss likes Linux, but doesn't notice/understand the problems the real workers have with it, the PCs are too slow and it's really hard to prove that we need new hardware/software to do our work well :-( I'm also thinking of a vmware solution, but that's relatively expensive and doesn't really solve the main dilemma. Thanks for the suggestions! /Simon _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
