[AccessD] OT: Linux, Open Suite and Access

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 20:41:24 CST 2006


On 01/02/06, Ken Ismert <KIsmert at texassystems.com> wrote:

> PS: Check out Koffice, another open source alternative to OpenOffice:
>
> http://www.koffice.org/
>
> It has its own data component, Kexi:
>
> http://www.koffice.org/kexi/
>
> My guess is that Kexi is not nearly as far along as Base is, but I will
> be checking it out, too, in the near future.

the problem with KOffice is that it is only native to Linux, and the
KDE Destop specifically. Yes you can run it on Windows with KDE
Cygwin, but it's not a native windows app. Whereas OOo is.

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