[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[Fred James]

I cannot report any real problems with StarOffice, though I too cannot 
speak for the data side.  I have 5.1 and 5.2 in use, and I am just 
starting to look at 6.0.  I run VMWare with Win2000 for the very few 
things I cannot do in Linux, like run Monarch.



Tom Woody wrote:

> I have had good experience with Star Office (on Windows and on Linux).  Some features of Excel and Word don't translate very well into Star Office, but otherwise it works very well.  It would primarily depend on the features used in the spreadsheets that he would need to work on.  I have never installed the DB portion of Star Office (MySQL works perfectly for me).
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:30:37 -0500
> "Rengasamy, Samy" <srengasamy at firstam.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric
>>systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.
>>
>>I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.
>>
>>What are your suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Samy Rengasamy.
>>
>>
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