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Re: [SLE] [OT] Linux for home Desktop.
- From: Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 21:49:33 -0400
- Message-id: <200109050150.f851oMs28497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Except that, AFAIK, Corel has abandoned all Linux support, since it
accepted a major bailout from MS, and you can no longer buy the
Corel Office Suite for Linux. Somebody tell me I'm wrong. Please.
--doug
At 20:26 09/04/2001 -0400, David Johanson wrote:
>Vitaly et al -
>
>Jumping in a little late on this discussion but just can't help comment
>on at least one part, that of the Office Suite.
>
>While I work in an almost exclusive microsoft office environment, I have
>never used the product and never will; I simply refuse to work with such
>an awkward, and very limited, piece of software. I began using the
>WordPerfect Office Suite back in version 7 when it shipped with hundreds
>of programs to complement it on the set of disks that required you to
>pay for first and then receive a key to unlock. This was in the early
>90s prior to anything office suite-wise from other companies and was
>head and shoulders above any competition. I still use this office suite
>except that it is now produced by Corel corporation and up to version
>10. Version 9, otherwise known as WordPerfect Office 2000 was made for
>both windows and Linux; in fact, the two programs are virtually the same
>the exception being that the Linux version runs under wine. All the
>power that is WordPerfect and its accompanying office partners Quattro
>Pro, Paradox, Presentations (a vector/raster/presentation program that
>literally shames powerpoint), CorelCENTRAL, Paradox, and Dragon
>Naturally Speaking is available for Linux. This is the ONLY office
>suite I use; the windows version at work and the Linux version at home.
>I would humbly suggest that this is the office suite we should be
>discussing and using for comparative purposed. True, its not free, but
>it is roughly a third the cost of the ms based products and it is far
>more capable. More importantly, the Corel Office Suite does not leave
>you natively exposed to all the problems associated with visual basic.
>
>Linux has the very BEST of the office suites!
>
>dave
>
/snip/
accepted a major bailout from MS, and you can no longer buy the
Corel Office Suite for Linux. Somebody tell me I'm wrong. Please.
--doug
At 20:26 09/04/2001 -0400, David Johanson wrote:
>Vitaly et al -
>
>Jumping in a little late on this discussion but just can't help comment
>on at least one part, that of the Office Suite.
>
>While I work in an almost exclusive microsoft office environment, I have
>never used the product and never will; I simply refuse to work with such
>an awkward, and very limited, piece of software. I began using the
>WordPerfect Office Suite back in version 7 when it shipped with hundreds
>of programs to complement it on the set of disks that required you to
>pay for first and then receive a key to unlock. This was in the early
>90s prior to anything office suite-wise from other companies and was
>head and shoulders above any competition. I still use this office suite
>except that it is now produced by Corel corporation and up to version
>10. Version 9, otherwise known as WordPerfect Office 2000 was made for
>both windows and Linux; in fact, the two programs are virtually the same
>the exception being that the Linux version runs under wine. All the
>power that is WordPerfect and its accompanying office partners Quattro
>Pro, Paradox, Presentations (a vector/raster/presentation program that
>literally shames powerpoint), CorelCENTRAL, Paradox, and Dragon
>Naturally Speaking is available for Linux. This is the ONLY office
>suite I use; the windows version at work and the Linux version at home.
>I would humbly suggest that this is the office suite we should be
>discussing and using for comparative purposed. True, its not free, but
>it is roughly a third the cost of the ms based products and it is far
>more capable. More importantly, the Corel Office Suite does not leave
>you natively exposed to all the problems associated with visual basic.
>
>Linux has the very BEST of the office suites!
>
>dave
>
/snip/
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