Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:33:33 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun to buy staroffice & release source ? Message-ID: <199909010533.WAA28310@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <7710.936163323@localhost> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 31, 99 10:22:03 pm"
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As I recall, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I'm not sure it really screws anyone since Applixware and StarOffice > have different feature sets and don't actually compete head-to-head > despite the fact that they both appear to be in the same application > space. Applix appears to be the more mature of the two products (it's > certainly been around longer) and has a good reputation for not > falling over. Well, the Applixware folks may claim they don't compete head-to-head. And Corel may claim that WordPerfect Suite doesn't compete head-to-head with Micro$oft Office. But to a consumer, the "word processing/presentations/spreadsheet/data base/e-mail/web browsing" toolkit hits the same user space no matter who's name is on it, or how the GUI looks. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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