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RE: What's the best software suite, and where to buy it?
Subject:RE: What's the best software suite, and where to buy it? From:BMcClain -at- centura -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:39:36 -0400
I suspect the software described below is StarOffice, available for Win32 as
well as Linux and a couple flavors of Solaris. http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/5.2/get.html will get you to the
download page.
UGLY TRUTH: Some people say that StarOffice is compatible with Word, Excel,
etc. Others say they're mostly compatible, but they're not perfectly so.
How comparable is "comparable"?
Bill McClain
("Writers are always selling somebody out." - Joan Didion)
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From: George Hinman [mailto:techwriter -at- my-deja -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 8:19 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: What's the best software suite, and where to buy it?
If you want a cheap effective suite of programs comparable to say MS Office,
why not go Linux? They have a suite of Office-like programs, word-processor,
spreadsheet, presentation, etc. for FREE! You simply download and install
(after installing Linux). Check out the Linux newsgroups for more info.
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