From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 1 10:13:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA08617 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:13:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA08608 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08937; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:13:05 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:13:05 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611011813.LAA08937@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Amancio Hasty Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Early Alpha: Corel Office in Java (FreeBSD!) In-Reply-To: <199611011802.KAA19281@rah.star-gate.com> References: <199611011729.KAA08706@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199611011802.KAA19281@rah.star-gate.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > http://officeforjava.corel.com > > > > If this flies, we could be running Corel Office on FreeBSD. :) :) > > I just tried over here . It looks nifty however it is slow. Hope that we > can eventually download it and compiled it using something like kaffe > or that its performance gets improved. Looking at my modem lights and such, it appears that it's running client/server, so much of the slowness is due to having everything go back to the server. I disagree that this is the way to go, but I suspect for monetary (how can you charge for a 'run' of it) and propriatary reasons (protecting their own code from hackers) they do it this way. Nate