Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 09:52:20 +0000 From: Richard Smith <rsmith@trltech.co.uk> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applixware Message-ID: <36D3CBD4.2C5551F6@trltech.co.uk> References: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:02:52 GMT." <36CBD73C.A9BDBC51@trltech.co.uk> <v04011705b2f904142950@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > One thing I'm a little confused about. Back when I first noticed > some comments about Applixware for FreeBSD, I had the impression that > it was something in the same product catagory as "Microsoft Office". > Looking at the description pointed at by Walnut Creek though, I > see it's a > open suite of integrated desktop tools that enable individual > users with time-critical and historical data needs to access, > analyze, display and communicate information from a universal > desktop across heterogeneous client/server environments The *strong* implication is that the "Applixware for FreeBSD" will be a port of the "Applixware for Linux" product, which is the same price and consists of (from http://www.applix.com/appware/linux/index.htm): "A CD-ROM containing the eight applications that comprise Applixware for LINUX (Words, Graphics, Spreadsheets, Mail, Data, Builder, HTML Author, and Presents)" They have additional info and screen shots for each of the applications. I use MS-Word and MS-Excel extensively, and I must say I like them, mainly because I know them _and_ their faults. Our company is almost entirely Office V9.5 based (I am opposing the natural tendency to migrate everyone to V9.7). When I get the Applixware product, it will be a pain moving to the new tools (learning how to do the complex tasks one takes for granted in the tools one knows), but any semblance of compatability with both archive data and peer data, which reduces the need to come out of my favourite operating system, will be a tick in my book. Whoops, this _isn't_ MS-Office advocacy is it? I think I'd better sink back into the shadows again :) Richard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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