Re: [SLE] ...and speaking of SuSE / Novell...
On Monday 14 November 2005 11:18 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 07:16 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:21, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Yes, perhaps she can use it, but what happens when she needs to
prepare or use
an Excel spreadsheet?
I agree this needs to be actively discussed and in a neutral fashion. The argument could degenerate into an "advocacy" forum, but hopefully will be kept above-board.
I would prefer to honestly say that OO (OpenOffice) will work
perfectly with
all Excell spreadsheets. I have looked at neither Excell nor OO spreadsheet in quite some time, but I would bet good money that compatability is far from perfect.
Actually I've yet to run into an issue with spreadsheets. I use them all the time. Most are made in Excel 2000, XP or 2003. I have heard that macros can fuxxor things up with OOo, but I haven't used a macro in a spreadsheet in a long while.
Furthermore, I find OO hard to use.
What part? I use OO Writer, Calc, and Impress all the time. Very nice stuff and user friendly. OO 2.0 is far and away better and more polished that 1.x was. I actually have OOo 2.0 installed on my Win2K machine at home. I prefer it for most things to Office 2003, which runs like a dog in comparison.
I happen to agree with the current state of usage. There are many things which work great in *nix desktops. (I won't even agrue servers, since MS has no valid server offering.)
That really isn't true. I've seen lots of sites running NT Servers for various purposes.
That was a joke. Sorry. In my days, I've built configured and setup the domains for several hundreds of NT servers. I just never found NT to be a valid server platform, and Win2003 doesn't make me feel any different. It just seems that Windows as a server is an afterthought at best. My office has several hundred NT/2K/2003 servers and so far only about a dozen SLES servers. I'm trying my best to increase the number of SLES servers. I've already replaced one Win2K server with a new SLES system. :) -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:
Actually I've yet to run into an issue with spreadsheets. I use them all the time. Most are made in Excel 2000, XP or 2003. I have heard that macros can fuxxor things up with OOo, but I haven't used a macro in a spreadsheet in a long while.
Do they look good? That has often been an issue for me. Sometimes things "technically" convert, but æsthetically leave much to be desired. It would be interesting if someone would conduct a reasonably large-scale test to see how well OO can play with that other product suite.
Furthermore, I find OO hard to use.
What part? I use OO Writer, Calc, and Impress all the time. Very nice stuff and user friendly. OO 2.0 is far and away better and more polished that 1.x was. I actually have OOo 2.0 installed on my Win2K machine at home. I prefer it for most things to Office 2003, which runs like a dog in comparison.
I'm not really a fair case study. I want an XML tool that thinks like LyX, but in XML, not LaTeX.
My office has several hundred NT/2K/2003 servers and so far only about a dozen SLES servers. I'm trying my best to increase the number of SLES servers. I've already replaced one Win2K server with a new SLES system. :)
Go for it. If you get a reasonable success story, ask management if you can write it up in an IT periodical. But the real war is for the desktop. Steven
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: I'm not really a fair case study. I want an XML tool that thinks like LyX, but in XML, not LaTeX.
The (soon to be) ISO standard XML format is OpenDocument, which OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice and AbiWord (read only) support.
On Monday 14 November 2005 07:13 pm, James Knott wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote: I'm not really a fair case study. I want an XML tool that thinks like LyX, but in XML, not LaTeX.
The (soon to be) ISO standard XML format is OpenDocument, which OpenOffice, StarOffice, KOffice and AbiWord (read only) support.
I almost went into convulsions when I saw it. It has virtually nothing to do with XML as it is used in DocBook, for example. There is still only One True Editor. Steven
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