From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 23 17:35:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82D7115D5 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA20500; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:37:08 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: 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> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:35:48 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Applixware Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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