Re: Star Office

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 10:57:18AM +0100, Richard wrote:
> Sun will be developing StarOffice, from its present form to a new
> web-based version called StarPortal and expect it to be available
> during 2000.

	I wish that people who write this sort of stuff actually thought
about what they write once or twice... From my CD, SO5.1 is about 70-odd
megs compressed... I just don't want to know what sort of clever stuff
they are going to be doing to "web-alize" it. From the looks of it, I
reckon that Sun are dying to show the-mother-of-all-apps running on Java
over a connection. I wonder why...

> This leaves Koffice Gnome office and Corel Office 2000.  None of them
> are as good as Star Office.

	Erm... Not to be pedantic, but ApplixWare also exists. I have a
CD with it from the Spanish version of Linux Journal, but haven't
installed it yet (and probably won't even bother). 

	And, of course, you have X/emacs: database, spreadsheet,
wordproecessor, web page design, e-mail, web browser, calendar... It
works fine over a network connection, and you don't even need a mouse.
What was it? Come and share the future with us or something along those
lines? X-)

	BTW, just so that I can advocate the big, wide world and since
everyone is using all these "office" packages, has anyone been playing
around with AbiWord? 

	Regards,

	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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