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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 07:42:11 -0600
From:      Darren Wiebe <dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Gary Roberts <garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au>, chad@DCFinc.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000
Message-ID:  <3922A1B3.368FC0AA@hagenhomes.com>
References:  <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au> <20000516195140.I233@parish>

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Mark Ovens wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000, Gary Roberts wrote:
> > Chad R. Larson writes :-
> >
> > > As I recall, David Gilbert wrote:
> > > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it.
> > >
> > > This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a
> > > 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998.
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office
> > > suites?
> > >
> > > 1)  Applixware - native
> > > 2)  StarOffice - linux
> > > 3)  WordPerfect - linux
> > > 4)  anything - Wine
> > > 5)  ???
> >
> > I notice that people on this thread have been cc'ing to `emulators' and
> > `stable'.  There doesn't seem to be an emulators list - it is `emulation'
> > or `freebsd-emulation' according to Majordomo.  This thread probably
> > belongs on emulation so the folks there have been missing it so far.
> >
> > To answer Chad's question from my perspective, to capture more of the
> > desktop rather than server market, FreeBSD needs a workable `office'
> > solution.  I was hoping staroffice might be that.  I have had my secretary
> > evaluating it with a view to weaning her off W98/Office97.  Here is a
> > summary of results.
> >
> > So as not to create too much of an initial shock, we installed the W98
> > version of staroffice about 4-6 months ago and tried to use it as much
> > as possible.  She reported that the suite was pretty much capable of all
> > the things she needed and was fairly easy to get used to, BUT:-
> >
> > 1.  It was slow, noticeably slower than she was used to.
> > 2.  It caused W98 to crash more frequently when she was trying to `push'.
> > 3.  She wasn't able to produce documents that our clients could open
> >     correctly under Office97.  Since we send a lot of documents as email
> >     attachments, this became the killer and so we haven't moved to
> >     `phase 2' which was to install it under a decent OS which should have
> >     cured the crashes.

Some of this will hopefully be taken care of after the source code is released
in June.

Darren Wiebe
dkwiebe@hagenhomes.com

>
> >
> > At the moment I've basically given up - she uses W98 and I use FreeBSD.
> > I would be very interested in other peoples experiences.  Perhaps
> > `emulation' might be the better forum to do this.
> >
>
> I try to use it at work (under NT) but it can't handle "forms" in Word
> docs properly, which is a problem. OTOH, it does a better job of
> exporting Expel spreadsheets to HTML than Expel 97 does :)
>
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Gary Roberts            (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au)
> >
> >
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