Hi again Stefan, After your discussions, I have been experimenting with Star Office 5.1. I must say, I am rather impressed. I have not found any stability problems, so far. I think that a lot has to do with the version of Java which one uses. I have recently had the most sucess with the Java Runtime 1.1.7 environment. I had problems with JRE 1.1.8 running some other software, and have tended to stick with JRE 1.1.7 - it seems the most stable - at least for me. Best regards, Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa) Des Aubery wrote:
Hi Stefan,
I have also found the Office Suites to be a little "young" when compared to their Winxx counterparts.
To solve this, I am running win98 as a virtual machine using VMware. This solves my short-term compatability problem. Out of interest - many winxx applications run better in VMware than directly on virgin hardware - interesting!!!
I will continue to convert applications directly to Linux equivalents, as they reach maturity. Even packages like ApplixWare have a number of inconsistencies, and often remind me of winxx-based software of some 6 years ago.
In the long-term, I trust that I will no longer run any winxx based programs - and will not be upgrading my current suites.
So - the now - and hopeful then...
Best regards,
Des Aubery... (adTherm Technologies, East London, E.Cape, South Africa)
Stefano Papini wrote:
I'm already begging your pardon for generic question, BUT I've in my mind a small project to push linux in the "office side" of my company.
That's feasible iff on our laptops can run something like an office suite (koffice, abisuite, siag, wpo2000) able to manage complex and heavy doc. (even heavvier than reasonable because generated by crappy word...) containing tables, images, graphs, etc..
This is an absolute pre-requisite.
Up to know I had not so good experiences with staroffice 5.x and abisuite as they still are immature products, so I even tried to switch to a wine based solution, but I still didn't get wine working with word, excel and ppt. Should any know tricks on wine..., in particular on wine.conf tricks (dll loading order, etc).
Any suggestion from this great list is much more than welcome.
cheers,
Stefano
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