[discuss] Re: Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Rod Engelsman
Daniel Carrera zmsl.com> writes: > > > I think you are thinking on a service like Writely, while I am talking > > about a web app like EyeOS or PHP-Nuke where you can install on your > > intranet and provide it for your company from your local server. > > Ok. If it's installed in the local

Re: [discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:43:27 -0600, Robert Derman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is *absolutely nothing* in open source software that can *fully* replace Outlook. Sort of, almost, nearly, but certainly not FULLY. Evolution and Kontact are good enough. -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of

RE: [discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Robertson
>AFAIK no one is working on this, but it seems to be by far the most requested addition or enhancement to OOo. There is *absolutely nothing* in open source software that can *fully* replace Outlook. Sort of, almost, nearly, but certainly not FULLY. Everything is either "Not ready for prime time"

Re: [discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Derman
Andrew Robertson wrote: So the only thing I can find that OpenOffice is lacking is an app like Outlook. I have not heard back form anyone at OpenOffice or Sun Microsystems as to whether or not they are working on something like this or if it is not in the plans at all. Ok, so I know I'll get a

Re: [discuss] openoffice

2006-02-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:53:49 -0600, nebu r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Whether open office runs support in windows media center edition? nebu Yes. -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org --

[discuss] How to change my email address for posting to this GMANE newsgroup

2006-02-23 Thread Maurice Batey
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[discuss] openoffice

2006-02-23 Thread nebu r
Hello, Whether open office runs support in windows media center edition? nebu

[discuss] OpenOffice Impress 2.0: does not display text height correctly while editing

2006-02-23 Thread lotus
Natale, Open OpenOffice Impress 2.0 Traditional Chinese. Define a piece of text almost filling the whole screen's size. Type Arial or Lucida Console, points sizes anything from 14 to 28. Type many lines to almost fill the whole text area. Click outside the text area, then you can see the w

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Daniel, Modern computers have gotten very good at generating documents. So good in fact current office workers are drowning in them, trying to set up decent workflows in the fat station world windows inflicted on us is not fun anymore (when networking was poor at least people finished documents in

[discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Robertson
So the only thing I can find that OpenOffice is lacking is an app like Outlook. I have not heard back form anyone at OpenOffice or Sun Microsystems as to whether or not they are working on something like this or if it is not in the plans at all. Ok, so I know I'll get a few slaps for this, but I

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Premium - The well known office suite with more extras bundled

2006-02-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:14:58 -0600, KamiHír <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi OpenOffice.org fans! I would introduce my modification for OpenOffice.org. It called OpenOffice.org Premium. What does it means? It is a general OpenOffice.org build with lots more extras. * more than 2400 cliparts * t

Re: [discuss] Outlook like application

2006-02-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:53:54 -0600, Andrew Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the only thing I can find that OpenOffice is lacking is an app like Outlook. I have not heard back form anyone at OpenOffice or Sun Microsystems as to whether or not they are working on something like this or

[discuss] OpenOffice.org Premium - The well known office suite with more extras bundled

2006-02-23 Thread KamiHír
Hi OpenOffice.org fans! I would introduce my modification for OpenOffice.org. It called OpenOffice.org Premium. What does it means? It is a general OpenOffice.org build with lots more extras. * more than 2400 cliparts * templates * documentations * other documents * more than 90 fonts * 40 fontwo

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Derman
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:36:31 -0600, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite. Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin clients at a primary school a while a

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/23/06, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > Document automatization, > > That sounds very buzz word compliant, but I don't know what it means. It means you can automate documents. IE - you can have them automatically updated from an RSS feed or a Stock

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin clients at a primary school a while ago and they're running OOo. Yes and is a pain to set-up, I didn't think it was. The thin client itself might have been. But I didn't have to do any extra work to

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:36:31 -0600, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite. Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin clients at a primary school a while ago and they're running OOo.

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Lars D . Noodén
That's an advantage of commodities and it applies to data formats as much as to electricity. Buyers (that's us) like a market where services, data, and protocols are interchangeable. Sellers dislike it, though beyond the short term they benefit from it, too. We've seen the benefit from open

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ian Lynch wrote: You need to look for customers who won't mind not being able to access their files for one day. Why if you provide them with a backup connection? Its about £25 a month for our 2 meg ADSL connection so doubling that cost is not prohibitive. ...or go to a market where people c

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/23/06, Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A: Where is your data, and what happens if where it's stored gets > fried somehow. This could be a result of admin errors, stupid staff, > power surge, or virus. All those problems exist on a local desktop that's connected to the Internet. They

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Chad Smith
On 2/23/06, Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hoi Chad > > > > > Check out http://www.googleofficesuite.com/ > http://whatisopenoffice.blogspot.com/ > > Is it one official of the OOo project ? > who maintains this page ? i noticed an error that should be corrected > I maintain the page

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Laurent Godard
Hoi Chad Check out http://www.googleofficesuite.com/ http://whatisopenoffice.blogspot.com/ Is it one official of the OOo project ? who maintains this page ? i noticed an error that should be corrected Laurent -- Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ingénierie OpenOffice.org Indesko >> http

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Rigel
here's my 2c In spite of new web technologies, and reliability one still needs to concern themselves with a few other problems. A: Where is your data, and what happens if where it's stored gets fried somehow. This could be a result of admin errors, stupid staff, power surge, or virus. B: The fee

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:51:05 -0600, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Chad Smith wrote: >> >>> Agreed. It would be cool to see a full feature suite on the web. >> >> It would be cool, yes, but would it be something that anybody really >> wants or needs

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:31 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > For those reasons intranet web offices have probably a bright future but I > wouldn't bet on their internet conterparts. People still buy personal > safes instead of using third-party wharehouses. Really? I thought banks were still the m

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Lars D . Noodén
In some areas, electricity is not reliable as it once was. Enron's greed-based outages and the MS-based east coast outage are two example, but I can think of 3 formerly high end european countries with electricity problem (compared to the 80's). Though still it is more reliable than network c

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:03 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Ian Lynch wrote: > > As it is if the electricity goes off and most people don't worry too > > much about that. > > Electricity is more reliable than internet connections. When internet > connections become as reliable as electricity is to

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ian Lynch wrote: Like any disruptive technology, to start with most people won't but some people will put up with any inconvenience for the lower cost. As the technology improves more people will migrate (see Christensen et al for the evidence in the past). In larger companies Google could provid

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 09:36 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite. > > Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin > clients at a primary school a while ago and they're running OOo. > > > Also a web-c

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:51 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > Chad Smith wrote: > > > Agreed. It would be cool to see a full feature suite on the web. > > It would be cool, yes, but would it be something that anybody really > wants or needs? There are a lot of people out there. I'm sure someone wou

Re: [discuss] Web Office Suite: best of breed products

2006-02-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Thin Clients will greatly welcome an office suite. Thin clients can already use office suites. We setup a set of thin clients at a primary school a while ago and they're running OOo. Also a web-centric office suite put much more push towards intgretation, Why? A