[AccessD] OT StarOffice

Marcus, Scott (GEAE, RHI Consulting) scott.marcus at ae.ge.com
Thu Apr 10 09:56:17 CDT 2003


William,

<<...btw, what mailer are you using ...your header is coming all the way
<<through in OE6 and the To: defaults to your address rather than accessd :(

If you look below, you will see that it says that it did default to accessd. It
must be on your end, except that you replied to it and it said "T0:
accessd at databaseadvisors.com"

<<----- Original Message -----
<<From: "Seth Galitzer" <sgsax at ksu.edu>
<<To: "accessd" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>

Scott

Scroll down and take a look...

-----Original Message-----
From: William Hindman [mailto:wdhindman at bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:26 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT StarOffice


...lol ...knew that would be your response :) ...but I do far to much db
integration with other MSOffice apps to ever try marrying Access with
StarOffice apps ...no matter how good StarOffice or OpenOffice gets, until
it makes such integration as developer/user friendly as MSOffice does, the
economics are going to have to be much, much better than that to lure me
...there is no question that $600+ for MSOffice is high but neither is there
any question that at my hourly development rate, a fully integrated, user
friendly application will cost far less in MSOffice than the same product
done in Star/OpenOffice, even using MSAccess.

...much as I'd like to see a viable competitor to MS Office drive the prices
down, I just don't see it in the current Star/OpenOffice products ...the
fact that its source code is open is by far its most attractive feature
...but until that means something in terms of real desktop productivity, it
will not become a viable business product ...imnsho of course :)

...btw, what mailer are you using ...your header is coming all the way
through in OE6 and the To: defaults to your address rather than accessd :(

William Hindman
"All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund
Burke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Galitzer" <sgsax at ksu.edu>
To: "accessd" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT StarOffice


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> William,
>
> So what's wrong with a mix-and-match approach?  It's my mantra: use the
> best tool for the job.  If you find the tools included with StarOffice
> to be adequate, but still want to use Access, then do so.  Last I
> checked, you could still by each of the Office products seperately.  You
> can even save a few bucks.
>
> SRP MS Office XP Pro: $579
>
> SRP MS Access 2002: $339
> SRP StarOffice 6.0: $75.95
>
> Price Savings: $164.05
>
> Which should almost be enough to buy yourself a copy of WordPerfect
> (upgrade) to go with it. :)  Buy all three, collect the full set! :)
>
> Seth
>
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 06:43, William Hindman wrote:
> > ...hhhmmm ...have not checked today gustav but iirc it was Starbase that
was
> > pulled and Adabas D that was added ...at least that's what I recall when
I
> > looked at the specs for 6 ...I've not tried 6 myself because I'm not
> > interested in any office replacement suite without an Access comparable
db
> > development capability :(
> >
> > William Hindman
>
> --
> Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu
> Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax
> Dept. of Plant Pathology
> Kansas State University
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