Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 23:46:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bryan Bursey <bbursey@mechv.me.tuns.ca>, Ruben van Staveren <ruben@luna.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarOffice 5 on a SMP system..... or Applixware... Message-ID: <199911220746.XAA06719@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Nov 1999 21:46:27 PST." <XFMail.991121214627.wwoods@cybcon.com>
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> Probably shouldent have phrased it like that...sorry. I downloaded StarOffice > at www.sun.com. I guess what I would like to ask is this then, > > 1) How well does ApplixWare handle MS Office97 files? Quite well. I even have reasonable results with FastSaved documents. > 2) Do you know of any plans for Applixware to support Office 2000 formats? It does already. > 3) How well does Applix share files with StarOffice (I aleady have a few in > StarOffice format, although I suppose I could change them to .txt > format and use them that way) It claims to read/write them; I haven't tested it. > 4) And this is the biggie.....Does the Applix lisence allow for multiple copies > of the software (For example on a laptop and Desktop) with one purchase or > would I have to purchase two copies... The Applixware office licence allows a single user unlimited use of the software. Since you are a single user, you'd be fine. > Regarding question #2, sibce The Applixware we have is a port from the Linux > one, does this mean we will have to wait untill Applix gets Office 2000 support > 1st or will we be able to work on the source ourself? It's not "a port from the Linux one"; Applixware builds for about a dozen or so platforms, and the FreeBSD port has equal status with the rest of them. As I've already stated above, it already has O2k support. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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