On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Nolan Porterfield <[email protected]>wrote:
TO JONATHAN AND HARRY -- I downloaded NeoOffice several years ago and think > it's still on my HD. I used it briefly; don't know why I gave it up. I > think maybe it was because it didn't have a data base (or at least not one I > could easily transfer my AW data base to). That's no longer a problem. > If you have an old NeoOffice from several years ago, throw it away! NeoOffice is always being upgraded, and the latest one is noticeably better than even last summer's release. There are minor upgrades at least monthly and major upgrades a couple of times per year. Also, NeoOffice does have a powerful database program, called Base. It can create stand-alone databases and also talk to SQL servers. (I've used it occasionally to get data from a PostgreSQL server that is in Detroit.) It's not as easy to use as Appleworks or Bento, but it can do a lot more. One other note about NeoOffice: some people don’t like it because it's slow to launch. This is because it's based on a Java, and the Java run-time machine has to load. Once it's running, it runs well. I just leave it running all the time in the background so there's no wait while it launches. -dan
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