Re: [PLUG] multi-user staroffice

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Arthur S. Alexion:
> I haven't tried the newest KOffice yet.  Nor have I tried Open Office, 
> which I intend to do.  There is also an emulator (i saved the url and 
> name somewhere) that claims to run MS Word well in Linux that I want to 
> try.


The newest version of KOffice usually works with Word files, but the key 
word is usually, it can lose placement of graphics and the like while 
converting.  Open Office is basically the same as StarOffice 6 minus the 
Adabas database software, and some conversion routines for formats like 
that of WordPerfect software.  I've only found one document that 
wouldn't work with OpenOffice, and it's cross platform too. The real 
problem is that there is not the support that Star offers for its 
version of the software.  I have to applaud Star for funding much of the 
development cost and going about offering things this way, and I note 
that its cost per installation is a lot cheaper than Microsoft for Word. 
 Of course, any day now, I'm expecting a new change in the .doc format 
to throw off the programs which can convert to and from said format.


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