Re: [Sheflug] Office apps

[Richard Davies <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 01 July 2002 14:37, you wrote:

My business has used nothing but Star Office since Version 5.2 initially on 
windoze 98 and for the past couple of years on Mandrake. Currently running 
6.0 and have never had any incompatibility problems between it and ms office 
either importing or exporting files. Open Office is reported to be nearly as 
good but I have never used it so couldn't comment.

> 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. Hooray!! I hear some of the more
> partizan of you shout. On a serious note though, I have to find a suitable
> alternative to M$ Office. We currently have a couple of machines doing some
> "behind-the-scenes" stuff but all desktop machines are M$ Windoze based.
>
> 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.
>
> We don't do anything too fancy with M$ Office, just writing letters, and
> handling the occasional Excel spreadsheet. I'm already a fair way down the
> road towards replicating our Access database with MySQL and PHP.
>
> All help gratefully received, as usual.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>
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