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Ximian to Bundle StarOffice 6.0
rainmanjag writes "A Ximian press release is reporting that Ximian will be bundling StarOffice 6.0 for Linux with the packaged version of Ximian Desktop Professional, Red Carpet Express, and Red Carpet CorporateConnect." This means that both Ximian and Mandrakesoft are offering comprehensive software bundles which happen to include StarOffice 6.0, a package which would otherwise cost more by itself than either of the bundles.
I think it would be a good idea that this version of Ximian contains non-free software, much like Debian letting you force no non-free stuff.
Many Linux newbies get into the "sport" for various political reasons, and through buying Ximian, they are no longer using a "pure" open-source desktop.
Buyer beware.
-twb
I don't know if any of you guys have the same problem, but I can't seem to copy and paste text (or any objects for that matter) between everything else on the Gnome/KDE desktop and SO/OO. This becomes a pain when trying to C/P URLS and other information to list documentation sources. Hopefully this union between Ximian and SO will clear that up.
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Anyone have any experience with the database components?
(This is the first I've heard of the database part...)
That part, if it's done well, would be worth the money to me - my office has people using Access databases that I would love to convert over to to StarOffice (connected to MySQL or Postgres) if I could.
Also, if I 'upgrade' people to StarOffice, how tough/legal is it to sell off the MS Office licenses? Assuming we have a bunch of individually-purchased copies...)
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
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Wow
I find it the opposite. Gnome/gtk is much faster on all my systems then KDS/QT my slowest system is AMD 166 w/128 meg ram. KDE is so slow that its not even worth installing on that box. GNOME how ever is no slower that when I have Winblows 95 on it. My fastest Box is an AMD 550 with 294 Megs and the same as KDE works Fine on it GNOME is still faster.
Weird
The Wheel keeps turing, It wont slow down.
Use Gobe Productive 3 for Linux. It's not bloatware and it kicks SO's fat ass!
s ta ll.tgz
http://www.gobe.com/downloads/gobe_linux_x86_in
"Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ~ V.I. Lenin
I don't know about the rest of you guys, but somewhere around 1992 I made an incredible leap of faith and decided HTML would be my default file format.
.WORD file 20 years from now????
I would abandoned Microsoft Word, which had been my defacto favorite wordprocessor for ages, as well as PLAIN TEXT FORMAT. I converted all my text files to HTML.
This was an incredible foresight, and has served me very well. Every wordprocessing document I create I use Netscape Composer, which has continued to evolve all the way up to 4.79... and I can rest easy knowning, no matter what, HTML will be a standard forever, and every document I create is already WEB READY.
That the rest of you guys are still f***ing around with such crappy Office Suites... is mindboggling....
The number of web documents and websites I personally have now is 50 to 100 times larger than anyone else I know.... my thoughts go instantly to the web about as fast as any blogger...
(Note that I said Netscape Composer, and not Mozilla... which I personal feel is a piece of bloated slow s**t... open source or not... try running it on a P200 and you'll see what I mean, its unusable)
Dump propreitary formats, standardize on something even bigger and widespread. Just recently I had to convert MacPaint files to JPEGs. Back in the day, I thought MacPaint would be around forever. Guess what. Its not. Not even supported in the GIMP. Neighter is PICT. So what do you think are the chances of being able to read a
You aren't really buying a Licence with Red Carpet CorporateConnect but a service. Now with StarOffice 6.0 and certain other components like that MS Outlook plugin for Evolution (if they ship it with the product) might have some special licenses, but the rest of the product is free software (well, obviously they also have licenses but...)
You're just buying the few apps (+ loads of free software in nice packages) and support for all that. And I doubt anyway that Red Carpet CorporateConnect is ment for Campuses, sheez.
...so I'm going to ask. If I were to purchase Ximian Desktop Professional for $59.00 do I get the regular StarOffice, or a custom, only-runs-when-Ximian-is-present version?
I would be willing to buy Ximian, not install it, and get StarOffice for a $20.00 discount. If it is just a regular version of StarOffice. But if Ximian has pulled a Dell, I'm not interested.