[ale] Taking the plunge

[Matt Kubilus]

VMware provides a free version of their server product.  You might not
get the performance of Xen, but with a dual core it should be close.
You will probably be happier with this setup.

Don't know about converting visio diagrams, don't think openoffice can
read them outright, but this may have changed.  Beauty of openoffice
is you can try it for free on any system before you commit to it.

Matt

On 8/15/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Is OO Draw similar to Visio?   For that matter is there an OSS product
> that would use or convert Visio docs into an OSS usable format?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Matt
> Kubilus
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Taking the plunge
>
> Openoffice draw is not bad, more intuitive than dia and can export to
> pdf.
>
>
> On 8/15/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> > Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > >
> > > My second basic question is which office solution to use since I
> have
> > > to be compatible with the rest of the company/clients.  ie.
> > > Interoperability is key.
> > >
> > > 1) Open Office 2.2 from the suse build service
> > > 2) Sun Office (from ??)
> > > 3) MS Office via wine (does it work?)
> > > 4) MS Office in a Xen VM.
> >
> > I've used OpenOffice exclusively since 2002. When transferring files
> > between OO Writer and Word in doc format, I had occasional problems
> with
> > lists and headings in the 1.x series, but nothing in recent memory.
> Base
> > is the only OO application I don't care for.
> >
> > > Question 3:
> > > I need to make a Viseo type drawing today.  I can deliver it to
> others
> > > as a PDF.  What tool should I use?
> >
> > I've always used DIA because of the special objects it has for
> > entity-relationship models, circuits, etc. I don't think it exports
> > directly to pdf, but there's always cups-pdf. I've never used viseo so
> I
> > can't make a comparison.
> >
> > -Brian
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