Seth Galitzer
sgsax at ksu.edu
Thu Apr 10 10:30:54 CDT 2003
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 09:25, William Hindman wrote: > ...lol ...knew that would be your response :) ...but I do far to much db > ...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 :) My contention is that most MS Office users don't utilize the latest and greatest whiz-bang features that new versions of the software provide. For day-to-day "real world" tasks, I would contend that SO does a great job. Add in the fact that it imports and exports typical MS docs transparently, so you can still talk to the rest of the conquered --errr civilized --errr de facto standardized world, and you've got a hell of a product. So far the only thing I've been dissappointed in is the graphing capability. MS does a much better job of this. (Yes, you heard me right). For me, the open-source aspect of Star/OpenOffice is not its most attractive feature. It is the fact that you get a well-rounded office suite that does what it says it does, does it damn well, and does it for a fraction of the price of the "market leader". And in the Linux space, no other office suite comes close to its power, flexibility, and usability. > > ...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 :( I've been using Evolution, an Outlook clone written for Linux. It's not my favorite email client I've ever used (eg it's too much like Outlook), but it's the best one written for this platform. You're not the first person to make this comment in general (not just to me). Looks like we'll need to do some more tweaking on the listserv. Seth > > William Hindman > "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." Edmund > Burke > -- Seth Galitzer sgsax at ksu.edu Computing Specialist http://puma.agron.ksu.edu/~sgsax Dept. of Plant Pathology Kansas State University