Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:14:29 -0400 From: Martin Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980824161429.00908d90@honk.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980824102758.wwoods@cybcon.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19980824123249.0090b3b0@honk.org>
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At 10:27 AM 8/24/98 -0700, William Woods wrote: >> >> >> 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. Ah, Corel for free. Can't beat that. If I could afford it, I would definitely go the Corel route (coming from Ottawa and all), but I think I will definitely give StarOffice a try. >> 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. Interesting - I thought for sure that MS has had a version of Office that ran on Mac OS for years (maybe it was just Word...) I also seem to recall not too long ago a certain Mr. Copeland (Corel's version of Bill Gates) said that Corel had no plans to develop Corel Suite for OS2 since they didn't believe that the demand was there. I wonder if this is still the case, and if so that means that FreeBSD has (in Corel's eyes) more appeal to a customer base than IBM!! M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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