[Sheflug] Re: Office apps

["Michael J. FORD(SCI)" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Sun are charging for star office 6.0.  As are Ability but Abi still have free downloads from there
homepage (sun doesnt), I got Ability a while ago as a free cover disk and prefer it to the Star
GUI.  Ability comes with Word processor and spreadsheet capabilities, presentations I think but no
database or other stocking fillers which you can get from elsewhere.  I find Ability to less of a
pain in the ar*e than Star this is just a general statement but I use office apps alot.  RTF is
supported by both and MS prods so cross compability shouldnt be an issue.

MF


shef-lug@list.sheflug.org.uk writes:
>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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