From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 24 13:14:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28896 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.honk.org (honk.org [206.191.48.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28891 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpoulin@honk.org) Received: from sw47 ([207.219.2.135]) by mail.honk.org (8.8.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01180 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:03:53 -0400 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980824161429.00908d90@honk.org> X-Sender: mpoulin@honk.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:14:29 -0400 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Martin Poulin Subject: Re: StarOffice & wordperfect In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.3.32.19980824123249.0090b3b0@honk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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