try it yourself and you will see it is functional, ready and is the desktop hope for linux ================================= I have Hancom Office 2.0 Professional (bought it for $50 at LinuxWorld in NYC). It appears ready, reasonably functinal (quite fast to load actually), but I'm not so sure it's THE desktop hope for linux. I tried importing a 55 page Excel Budget document and the program repeatedly crashed w/o opening it. Admittedly it was a fairly complex budget document, but SO has been opening the same document, edits it, and saves both natively and as a usable Excel file, since 5.0. Flawlessly!! Word docs open quite nicely, although they required a little bit of tweaking to get exactly correct, especially if there are tables or tricky templates. SO typically has needed no tweaking what-so-ever, but takes a bit longer (2 seconds, perhaps) to open the .doc. In opening PowerPoint shows, Hancom opens them and edits them well (I find this portionof the suite more intuitive and easier to use the SO) but does not retain things like slide color (they're all white!!) or animation formatting. SO opens them w/o a hitch and runs them well, if a little bit choppy (as if it's stuttering while it "thinks". Overall, my nod goes to SO (though it too has its flaws) I've been running 6.0 beta for several months now and can't quite
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 06:19:38 -0500 (EST) "Landy Roman" <landy@despiertapr.com> scribbled in frustration: <snip> figure why it's "beta". Without import/export in the equation, Hancom has produced an equally admirable product that I have found to open and run a bit faster than SO. Just my $0.02, Mike -- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin