[NTLUG:Discuss] office applications

Fred James fredjame at concentric.net
Tue Aug 27 07:40:21 CDT 2002


WINE and VMWare are both fine, and getting better, but in either case 
you still need an MS product (i.e., license) to run.

kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

>
>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Fred James wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I may be inviting a religious war, but that is not my intent.
>>> I am looking for experiences and opinions, good, bad, and 
>>> indifferent, on "office applications" for Linux.
>>
>
> I haven't tried it, but if you have ms-office97, maybe it will run 
> under Wine.  At work, I have VMware so I can run ms-office2k under 
> win2k while booted into Linux, though that is probably more expensive 
> than most people will want to do.
>
> Kevin
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