From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 24 10:29:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02365 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:29:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02360 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from support1.cybcon.com (william@support1.cybcon.com [205.147.76.99]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03575; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980824123249.0090b3b0@honk.org> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:27:58 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: wwoods@cybcon.com From: William Woods To: Martin Poulin Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Since you use both, how would you rate them? (eg. compared to each other, > and to M$) Well, If you are into the Free Word Processors, then, in my opinion you cant beat StarOffice. For my daily work though (I have need to translate several different wp's files) WP 7 was the choice. The $$ part for WP was not a big deal, as the company I work for bought it for wiork. >I agree here completely. How else are we going to take machines back from >>Microsoft if we can't compete in the desktop arena? If Freebsd ran MS >>office, I wouldn't have to keep installing Win95/98 on all the desktop >>computers around here. > > > I do notice that Corel has put out a *nix port of Wordperfect. How come M$ > hasn't > followed suit? Are they a little afraid of this "other" operating system I thionk I can answer this....why would MS put out a Suite that doesnt run on their OS...it defeats their pourpose....while Corel has no OS and therefore can support many platforms. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message --------------------- William Woods Date: 24-Aug-98 / Time: 10:21:58 goto to: http//www.freebsd.org. --> FreeBSD 3.0 CURRENT <-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message