Re: [Sheflug] Office apps

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:37:52PM +0100, Steve Tickle wrote:
> Our MD has just waltzed in and announced that he'd like all but a very few 
> PCs running Linux by the end of the year.

Good job Steve :)

> I haven't looked at Star Office or KOffice for some time so I'd really 
> appreciate it if some of you could give me the low-down on how M$ 
> compatible these apps are, insofar as being able to read and create M$ 
> compatible files.

Go look at OpenOffice.org (the name of both the site and the software!). 
OpenOffice.org (or, OOo to it's friends) is the Free Software suite that
Sun builds StarOffice from. It recently hit version 1.0.0, and I use it
for a number of tasks - such as writing technical specification 
documents. It also has a very good database application, a little like
Access, which you may want to investigate - the great thing about Free
Software is that it will integrate and compliment your current web-
based stuff nicely.

Cheers,

Alex.
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