[ILUG] Small office project

[Smith, Graham - Computing Technician]

OpenOffice is the one we should be supporting
- ok i know it essentially is the same application
as Star Office behind the logos, but i think
it would be no harm to try and promote the name
OpenOffice in regard to it being open source 
compared with the more restricted and closed
Sun StarOffice.

G.

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 Graham Smith,
 Network Administrator,
 Department of Computing,
 Institute of Technology,
 Tallaght, Dublin 24
 Phone: + 353 (01) 4042840

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin McCullagh [mailto:gavin at fiachra.ucd.ie]
Sent: 22 November 2001 16:24
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Small office project


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Chris Higgins wrote:

> >myself) and I know of no linux prog which will open *.xls.
> 
> HUH?
> 
> StarOffice 5.2
> StarOffice 6.0 (beta)
> Applixware
> Kspread
> 
> And that's just what I've got locally !

<somewhat_embarrased>

hmm, I'd actually forgotten staroffice, mainly out of hatred for it.  I
had a copy of v5 from when Sun posted CDs out.  It was almost quicker to
reboot into windows.  I gather it has improved though.  The others I didn't
know of.  cool.

I still maintain that totally ditching windows *initially* may be a bad
plan.  I know that in a rush, I reach for Photoshop ahead of The Gimp,
simply cos I'm more practiced with it and in a hurry I need that.  Hence
'til you really know how to do stuff quickly you need to, I wouldn't 
recommend wiping as you might regret not being abble to reboot back into 
windows for 5 minutes some time.

Gavin


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