Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 23:00:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Cc: hm@altona.hamburg.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: StarDivision office suite for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199506201330.XAA22831@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950620171243.2714D-100000@aries> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 20, 95 05:13:17 pm
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Brian Tao stands accused of saying:
> > > >Just read in the German linux group that around August, StarDivision is
> > > >supposed to release their office suite for a variety of unices, including
> > > >linux.
> >
> > Yes, it's a Hamburg based software company who does (from what i hear
> > and see) a complete line of office products (edit, paint, calculate
> > etc.), also i saw some advertizement (Dr. Dobbs) from them for a
> > platform independent GUI tool- kit running on various DOS/Windows/Unix
> > platforms.
I've seen various people talking about their products in some of the OS/2
groups; by the sound of it, their package is pretty good. (Not perhaps
quite Lotus SmartSuite stuff, but not bad.)
> Someone send them a FreeBSD T-shirt and a Daemon plushie (when it
> is available) as a hint. ;-)
This would be a Really Good Idea (tm). If they came through with it,
it would mean that I could go back to having two machines on my desk
instead of three, and that would make me very happy 8)
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
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