Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:35:48 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Applixware Message-ID: <v04011705b2f904142950@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <579.919329574@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:02:52 GMT." <36CBD73C.A9BDBC51@trltech.co.uk>
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At 1:19 AM -0800 2/18/99, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Does anybody care that the delivery date for the Applixware port >> has slipped nine months, days before it was due to be shipped? > > I think 9 months may be a bit overstating the case; I'm not sure who > made the update to the timeline on that page or when they did it, but > as someone who's been watching the Applixware porting project rather > directly, I can say that 9 months is hopefully the very longest it > could possibly take, not the time we're actually hoping for. One thing I'm a little confused about. Back when I first noticed some comments about Applixware for FreeBSD, I had the impression that it was something in the same product catagory as "Microsoft Office". Looking at the description pointed at by Walnut Creek though, I see it's a open suite of integrated desktop tools that enable individual users with time-critical and historical data needs to access, analyze, display and communicate information from a universal desktop across heterogeneous client/server environments I'm not even sure I understand what that means, although I do appreciate the high buzzword-ratio. It sounds more like some kind of data-analysis tool. From the same web page, it looks like "Applix Office" is more along the lines of what I thought Applixware was. Now, it's also possible that "Applix Office" is *part* of Applixware, but I'm a bit confused by the descriptions on the web pages. So, if I want something that does MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint like tasks, is this Applixware for freebsd the thing I should be looking forward to? (I don't use MS-Excel at all, although I would be interested in something more like Lotus's Improv). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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