[dba-Tech] Linux equivalent of Office 2013?

First of all, Jim, I'm not despondent about it at all -- I'm looking
forward to all these changes, and looking forward to becoming a simple user
of software rather than a developer of it. Of course, I'll always keep my
hand in the game, but less and less to make a living, and more and more to
just have fun. I've scaled my lifestyle down to match the revenues
available, and I have no kids to send to college, nor desire for a yacht or
a summer place in the Caymans or a trip around the world. (Well, no, I take
that last one back, but just don't think it's in the cards.)

But even as far as hobbyist programming goes, I don't think it likely that
I'm going to wake up one morning with the sudden desire to write a YAFOE
(yet another f**g Order Entry System). There are much more interesting
problems out there. I've got an idea for a web/phone/tablet app, for
example, and am planning on giving it away.

Riding slowly and cheerfully into the sunset....
A.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Ahh Arthur don't get despondent and morose.
>
> There are lots of delightful applications and opportunities out there but
> in
> truth they are mostly web based. That means all you need is browser and you
> are away. It is amazing how cheaply you can set up for your own designing.
>
> The PC market is never going away. Even though the tablet/Smartphone market
> is growing spectacularly, the existing PC market, though growing much
> slower
> still has, by far, the largest market share. The one thing to note is that
> the new tablets and Smartphones are only for the consumer market. The
> actual
> market we are in is the production market, we produce the consumables and
> that for the most part requires PCs and servers.
>
> Jim
>
>