Thanks, Steven. Well, everybody seems quite psyched abotu OpenOffice and StarOffice. I will give those a try. Nobody seems to mention Hancom Office. Has anybody tried them? Of course free is nice, but I am not a fanatic about not purchasing software - particularly if it is nice. I think the success of Linux will depend on people being able to support themselves by developing it, and developing applications for it.
Of course I am speaking as somebody who works for a company that makes software that runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): >On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:22:58AM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: >> What office suites do people recommend? I need to be compatible with >> Microsoft Office to at least *some* extent for: >> >> Spreadsheets >> Word Processing >> PowerPoint Presentations >> >> What do people think of Hancom Office at http://www.hancom.com. That >> package looks unbelievable for $49! >> >> How about the office stuff that is included with KDE? Kpresenter does not >> seem to be PowerPoint compatible, right? > >Doug, congrats on the successful install. I've used MacOS for years and >also use MacOS X. However I've been drifting away from Apple the last >few years as I don't particularly like their way of doing things. As >far as I'm concerned they're not much different than M$ and would love >to be in M$ position marketwise. Properietary OS'es suck wind! > >Anyway, in terms of office suites for Linux there are several. Abisuite, >KOffice, OpenOffice and StarOffice. The latter two are from Sun and >IMHO both put M$ Office in it's place and...the price is damn good - >free. > >I installed the latest OpenOffice binary this past weekend. I'm >impressed - I've been using StarOffice v 5.x previously. > >In case you haven't heard of it, let me introduce you to ><www.freshmeat.net> Linux's version of VersionTracker. To find the apps >I mentioned, go there and use the search facility. > >Merry Christmas! > >-- >Cheers, > >Stephen > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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