[dba-Tech] Xandros running MS Office?

...not beating on you Bryan ...I'm just non-plussed about the "free Linux"
fervor when someone offers a Linux tool to give me limited compatibility for
as much or more than MS wants for real compatibility ...I don't believe in a
free lunch and as far as I'm concerned, Linux just goes to prove that truism
...when I see Linux products that are better than the comparable MS product
for equal money
I'll start to give them some serious consideration ...but right now Linux is
just a pita because every couple of months I have to go through the TOC bit
with a client who's been infected by some Linux fanatic ...the real world is
a sobering environment :)

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <carbonnb at sympatico.ca>
To: <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [dba-Tech] Xandros running MS Office?


> > From: "William Hindman" <wdhindman at bellsouth.net>
>
> > "in our testing, we find that these applications have signifcant bugs
that
> > prevent them from running flawlessly." Crossover
> >
> > ...yep, gonna jump right in that well-regarded briar patch :((((
>
> At least they are up front about the problems. Unlike our friends in
Redmond.
>
> Not to mention that that quote is from a ratings system they use so you
can make an informed descision on wheather it will work for you or not.
>
> Continuing on with the quote William started...
> "The most important aspect of a silver application is that CodeWeavers
makes a firm commitment to bring all silver applications to the gold level
in future releases of CrossOver, and that CodeWeavers will respond to and
address all bugs reported in these applications."
>
> I wouldn't and don't run MS Office on Linux anyway. It wasn't designed for
it. It was designed to run on Windows. OpenOffice was designed for Linux, so
was KOffice.
>
> I'm not saying Linux is better than Windows. Nor am I saying Windows is
better than Linux. I use them both, but for different purposes.
> What I am saying is that in the Linux community CrossOver Office is well
regarded in getting Microsoft Office for WINDOWS to run on Linux. Just like
in our community (AccessD and DBA in general) Access is a "real" DB not a
toy one as so many contend.
>
> --
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
> Unfortunately common sense isn't so common!
>
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