[NTLUG:Discuss] OT - maybe not

[Fred James]

Greg Edwards wrote:

> Fred James wrote:
>
>> I found this article (see snippet and URL below) in the 
>> InformationWeek Daily this morning.  I just sent an inquiry to Corel 
>> regarding availability, functionality, compatibility, and pricing for 
>> Linux.  But I should like to ask if anyone on the list has any 
>> insight to share on the subject, perhaps with comparisons to 
>> StarOffice, and OpenOffice, as well.
>>
>
>
> I bought Corel Office for Linux (I think 2000) and after a couple 
> months went back to Applix.  Corel ran on top of wine at the time so 
> performance was lacking.  I've since gone to StarOffice and for the 
> most part I'm happy with it.  Imports everything I've needed so far.  
> I'm still trying to figure out some of the features and it isn't as 
> user friendly as I'd like but it'll do.
>
>
I too have been using StarOffice on Red Hat Linux, since StarOffice 5.0 
when the download was free.  I tried StarOffice 6.0, but went back to 
5.2 (where I am still) because 6.0 was truly buggy - so many "features". 
 I paid for, and am quite happy with StarOffice 5.2, it is just that the 
writeup on Corel "sounded" like they might have some kind of break 
through.  Of course the price could well be a "show stopper", even if it 
cheaper than MS Office - but that's a show stopper of a different color.

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