W. Chris Shank on Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:18:09 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Netraverse LUG Sponsorship Program


OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 works great. I do all my spreadsheets with it, both
in windows and linux. It's nice to finally be able to share docs easily
between the two.

> Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 21:23, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 19:58, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>> > > I'm not that excited by Win4Lin. It still requires fully licensed
>> windows. So it's still windows. So if your going to do that, most
>> people will opt just to use windows. I suppose it could be useful
>> in some special cases, but I'd rather try to replace the windows
>> programs with functionally equivalent linux programs.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 18:00, Michael Bevilacqua wrote:
>> > > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 07:07:27PM -0500, Michael Bevilacqua
>> wrote:
>> > > > > http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/
>> > > >
>> > > > Wow, I was expecting a little bit more from this post. Perhaps I
>> forgot to mention they are willing to give away FREE copies of
>> the Win4Lin software?
>> >
>> > C'mon, isn't there some windows program that you would rather not do
>> without on a regular basis, but have gotten to the point where you
>> can do most of your work in Linux?  Win4Lin and VMWare are a nice
>> way to spend your day in Linux while using that one vertical market
>> windows app that you really need to use.
>>
>> Which would be??? What is it that you need to use every day that you
>> can't find a suitable replacement that is native Linux? Let me know
>> and we'll see if we can find something for you.
>
>
> How about spreadsheets?  What do you consider comparable to Excel?
>
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