[ale] Native Office Suties

[Douglas Knudsen]

...and according to the Sun rep I spoke to at ALS, Sun is supposed to be
breaking the huge Star Office Iceberg into pieces as in Star Office 'Word',
etc...  IMHO, this will really help those us that do not have access to
PIIIs with 256MBs of memory.  As it stands currently, Star Office is a real
resource hog.  Back in Grad school, my dept had a bunch of Sparc Terminals
and a couple of Sparc 5s for us lowly grad students.  (the profs did not
have much more in the way of computing)  Trying to run StarOffice in an
environment such as that was awfull to say the least.

	   Thanks be to LaTeX!

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Douglas Knudsen
Alltel Information Systems  <-- Hey! These views are MINE!
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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Mark R.
-> Lindsey
-> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 6:54 PM
-> To: Michael H. Warfield; Richard Storey
-> Cc: ale at ale.org
-> Subject: Re: [ale] Native Office Suties
->
->
-> Michael Warfield said:
-> : On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 04:39:46PM -0500, Richard Storey wrote:
-> : > Recently, I think that I read an article claiming the Star
-> Office and Corel
-> : > Wordperfect are not running natively on Linux, but by
-> emulation or something.
-> : >  It also claimed that Applixware is the only native Linux
-> Office suite.
-> : > Could anyone offer a brief explanation/confirmation of these claims?
-> :
-> : 	Corel runs under Wine.  Applixware and StarOffice both run native.
-> : I have all three.  Corel is nice for a wide support of formats but
-> : can be a bit flakey.  Right now, I'm focusing on StarOffice.
->
-> I, too, like StarOffice. However relevant to the above
-> discussion, one should
-> note that it actually runs on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM); this gives
-> it portability to run on most environments that have a JVM
-> available without
-> waiting on Sun to port StarOffice itself.
->
-> StarOffice has a published Java API that can be used to extend it; see
-> http://soldc.sun.com/staroffice/
->
-> Richard -- where was it that you were reading about that? Was the author
-> arguing that one office suite was superior than another?
->
->
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