Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 19:51:40 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Gary Roberts <garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au> Cc: chad@DCFinc.com, emulation@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpm and WordPerfect Office 2000 Message-ID: <20000516195140.I233@parish> In-Reply-To: <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au>; from garyr@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM %2B1000 References: <200005152346.QAA11498@freeway.dcfinc.com> <200005160032.KAA09256@amor.wcs.uq.edu.au>
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:32:49AM +1000, Gary Roberts wrote:
> Chad R. Larson writes :-
>
> > As I recall, David Gilbert wrote:
> > > I must say that I'm dissapointed that I can't run it.
> >
> > This is older hat, but I've had WordPerfect 8 running on a
> > 2.2.8-STABLE system under Linux emulation since Dec, 1998.
> >
> > Has anyone tried to evaluate pros and cons of the various office
> > suites?
> >
> > 1) Applixware - native
> > 2) StarOffice - linux
> > 3) WordPerfect - linux
> > 4) anything - Wine
> > 5) ???
>
> I notice that people on this thread have been cc'ing to `emulators' and
> `stable'. There doesn't seem to be an emulators list - it is `emulation'
> or `freebsd-emulation' according to Majordomo. This thread probably
> belongs on emulation so the folks there have been missing it so far.
>
> To answer Chad's question from my perspective, to capture more of the
> desktop rather than server market, FreeBSD needs a workable `office'
> solution. I was hoping staroffice might be that. I have had my secretary
> evaluating it with a view to weaning her off W98/Office97. Here is a
> summary of results.
>
> So as not to create too much of an initial shock, we installed the W98
> version of staroffice about 4-6 months ago and tried to use it as much
> as possible. She reported that the suite was pretty much capable of all
> the things she needed and was fairly easy to get used to, BUT:-
>
> 1. It was slow, noticeably slower than she was used to.
> 2. It caused W98 to crash more frequently when she was trying to `push'.
> 3. She wasn't able to produce documents that our clients could open
> correctly under Office97. Since we send a lot of documents as email
> attachments, this became the killer and so we haven't moved to
> `phase 2' which was to install it under a decent OS which should have
> cured the crashes.
>
> At the moment I've basically given up - she uses W98 and I use FreeBSD.
> I would be very interested in other peoples experiences. Perhaps
> `emulation' might be the better forum to do this.
>
I try to use it at work (under NT) but it can't handle "forms" in Word
docs properly, which is a problem. OTOH, it does a better job of
exporting Expel spreadsheets to HTML than Expel 97 does :)
> Cheers,
> --
> Gary Roberts (garyr@wcs.uq.edu.au)
>
>
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