Bob Munck wrote:
> > ONly FUD and the lack of silly useless pointy-haired-boss-pleasing
> > "business applications" has prevented it from sinking Microsoft's ship,
>
> Here you start to lose me. Apps are what sells PCs, not the goodness
> of their OS. As a minimum, Linux has to have a web browser, spreadsheet,
> word processor, and presentation editor. The browser has to support
> the full W3C HTML 4, DOM, and ECMAScript and the last three have to
> have the same level of functionality as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
> and support import of their files. (I had an email processor in the
> list, but would prefer to have that and newsgroups supported through
> the browser).
> Without these, Linux could be the greatest thing since Multics,
> but no one is going to buy it. Why should they?
>
Done. StarOffice, Corel WP Suite, Applixware. Latest releases are as
good or better than MS equivalents in about every review I've seen.
StarOffice's next version will have full suport for Powerpoint and .doc
files (expected this month), WP suite already does (but we're all
waiting for version 8). All are available in client server, enterprise
strength versions.
Netscape 4.07 is available for Linux. Rumor has it Opera will be soon.
You can get yer email and newsgroup, as well as calendar server and PIM
coordination (including PalmPilot) via the Communicator suite.
Together with free WP7 wordprocessor, recent Linux port announcements by
SAP and Peoplesoft, working demos from Oracle and Informix, GIMP and a
host of other things, the lack of application argument is becoming more
and more FUD everyday.
Brett
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