StarTux wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:49:33PM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
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
Well, I noticed it for sale at Vroom and Dreesman (a big department store in Holland) the other day, at a reduced price however.
Cliff
http://www3.corel.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagenam e=Corel/Product/Details&id=CC1868B84AC
Saw it here too, with buy icon next to it. But selecting this gives you a number to call...So not too sure..
Matt
Certainly can you buy WPO2000.. Corel has spinned off its Linux distro, but Corel maintains its applications for Linux. It remains uncertain, however, if there will be a Linux version of WPO2002. The issue is, they have ported WPO2K to Linux using Wine technology, and that turned out not to be such a good idea. Wine, in a sort of permanent beta state, is good for small programs, but it makes a large program such as WPO2000 a little, let's say, fragile. It's not as stable as you would expect of a Linux program, and it causes installation problems on several distributions. So they had to make new install scripts and an optimized version of Wine, and there are a few known problems left. So one thing is certain: a next release of WPO should be Linux native. However, this is an enormous task, and if the market for WPO4L would be large enough, they would do it, but, as the situation is now, it's not worth while. But don't let yourself be disencouraged by this; for those who like WordPerfect it's well worth the trouble. I have it running well on SuSE 7.1, it offers an impressive functionality that is hardly seen on any other Linux program. Biggest advantage over SO for me is that it has a font installer, and it comes with a thousand fonts (a few hundred "font families", that is), truetype as well as type1. And a CD full of clipart and the like. The price is just about one third of the price for the Win version. SH