From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 25 15:36:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12455 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:36:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12330 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA09966; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:29:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson To: Amancio Hasty cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chat Away 8) In-Reply-To: <199806240325.UAA24577@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2241.html > [...] >2. Tier One applications. The leading applications must be available >in Linux versions. The situation is improving but very slowly. Corel >ships WordPerfect for Linux and plans to develop a suite of business >applications. Most other vendors won't do Linux versions until WordPerfect for Linux works very well on FreeBSD and the pricing is now reasonable (under $100, even less for an academic version). What's really good about it is that the Windows95/NT version is also pretty cheap and document files can be exchanged between the two. [...] Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message