I agree that StarOffice is good, actually at the
moment, OpenOffice is my preferred office suite. How
ever, I also have CrossOver Office because in reality
now all M$ documents convert well enough to use either
StarOffice or OpenOffice. Untill M$ fully releases
their API's that will continue to be a problem, or
actually the preferred solution would be to stop using
what in most cases is a lot of unnecessary formatting.
Carson
--- "John Danielson, II" <jdii1215@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> patrick grantham wrote:
>
> >How are youdoing this? Running Outlook, under
> Wine, under Linux?
> >
> >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:27, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>This response is from MS Outlook on my Linux
> Desktop!!
> >>
> >>Michael C. Rock
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> CodeWeavers has two new products, developed partly
> from Wine Components.
> They are: Crossover Plugin and Croosover Office.
> Crossover Office ends
> up as much as a licensed version of StarOffice 6.0,
> so I opted for the
> latter.
>
> StarOffice 6.0 is $80.39 shipping included from
> Amazon. with Sun tech
> support. They will be GIVING it to educational
> institutions(the programs
> are free, support $85.00 per month per SITE, for
> educational sites), and
> bulk discounting it thoroughly to corporations(I
> think they said 150
> seat bulks were about $50.00 per seat). It has
> Database capability, and
> when mine arrives I will see how good the DBMS is,
> but for the rest it
> is the same as OpenOffice 1.0 with support and the
> convenience of all
> versions on one install media and a manual. It runs
> in Windows, Linux,
> and Solaris, and so far I have not been able to
> throw a presentation at
> it from PowerPoint that it cannot edit well-- and
> then output as a file
> PowerPoint can both edit and view, from Linux or
> Windows. I do not run
> Solaris. The PPC version is in beta.
>
> Had Crossover Office arrived 3-6 months earlier, it
> would have sold like
> hotcakes. Now??? I do not know. Depends on support,
> and I know Sun is
> good there. I also know that StarOffice has been in
> dev for a while,
> ever since Sun BOUGHT Star Division. 6.0 dispenses
> with the integrator
> if you want, and you can create a new doc or
> presentation or drawing or
> (about 10 other options) from the New submenu in
> Write, which default
> opens in Linux if you do NOT run a module by
> opening a module specific
> file.
>
> John.
>
> --
>
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