Re: [Sheflug] Office apps

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Isn't Open Office just an early-ish version of StarOffice. Just an
impression I get from the executable file being called 'soffice'......

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Davies" <xxxxx [at] eudoramail.com>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Office apps


> 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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> Richard
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