I am not a spread sheet geek or anything, but from what I have seen (which is limited) Star Offices spread sheet works and looks just like Microsoft's Office 97 Execel, for the people (like myself) that have no use for spread sheets, they are about the same. Maybe the hard core spread sheet hackers might see it differant. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Cleary, Mike To: Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 8:22 AM Subject: RE: [SLE] suse only great as workstation not as server??

<snip> Linux is also missing a few essential apps: a spreadsheet that is as fully featured as Excel, and a vector drawing program. The GIMP also, as far as </snip>

For a spreadsheet app, take a look at Xess. While I haven't compared it point for point with Excel, it is a very powerful spreadsheet. It will also import Excel and Lotus sheets. It isn't free, but I paid only $19.99 at CompUSA. That's pretty cheap considering it includes two very nice printed manuals as well.

Just thought I'd throw this in the pot...........:)

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