From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 31 22:23:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF9A14C41 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07714; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: rich@chumbly.math.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun to buy staroffice & release source ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:11:09 PDT." <199909010511.WAA28093@freeway.dcfinc.com> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:22:03 -0700 Message-ID: <7710.936163323@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This must screw the Applixware folks pretty royally. I have no idea > what this means to the FreeBSD mall folks who are paying for an > Applixware port. But who here isn't rubbing their hands for the > native BSD StarOffice port that must be soon to follow? 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. > Has anyone signed up to do the port yet? If not, put me on the > list. It's been done and we're just now waiting for a 3rd party to fix one last filter (which doesn't quite work in the Linux version at the mement, so the FreeBSD port will actually have additional functionality) so that we can get the final "gold build" from Applix and start selling it from the mall. Some of the people on this list have already tested BETAs for us with good results and their initial feedback has gone into making the final version even better. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message