SoftMaker Rolls Out Office Suite for BSD, Linux, and Others

martin-k writes "Commercial office suite software is coming to FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, Sharp Zaurus and Windows Mobile. SoftMaker, a German developer, recently released SoftMaker Office, a multi-platform office suite that excels in Microsoft Office compatibility, claims to be much leaner and faster than OpenOffice.org and works on many operating systems, down to PDAs." While SoftMaker certainly isn't new, it is nice to see them roll out a finished suite as opposed to one-off programs.

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*BSD's Final Christmas, a last adieu

[Anonymous Coward]

Outside the walls of this frigid tumble-down shack, dry leaves before the wild winter hurricane fly. Here within, at the corner by the cold hearth rests an empty stool. A crutch without a master stands perched against the wall. These forlorn and lonely objects serve as mute reminders of their departed owner, *BSD.

This crutch and vacant stool have become orphans, not unlike the now dead *BSD. No longer will *BSD hobble about on its cripple's crutch. Like the empty hearth, and the vacant stool, *BSD lies cold and still. *BSD's corpse, lifeless beneath frozen earth and December snows, will see no more Christmas cheer. No, there will be no Christmas ever again for *BSD, for *BSD is dead.

Goodbye, *BSD. The pain of life forever stilled, sleep for all eternity in that long winter's nap. Fade gently into Earth's frozen bosom where in dreams even cripples walk and blind men see, there among the ghosts of Christmas past.

Gnu?

[rhinokitty]

It isn't even free software, why would I switch to proprietary when I am running a linux box. Most people I know don't run linux on their machines because they feel like coughing up 50 bucks for a questionably better product.

Re:how much better than OpenOffice?

[synthespian]

Yes, the expected and canonical "MS sucks and OpenOffice rulez" fanboy response.

Listen, fanboy, if the world looked was anything like those distortion lenses you wear, you would think every suit on Wall Street fired up OpenOffice in the mornings, right? Instead, everybody else, except you and your clique of basement dwellers use the now industry-standard Microsoft format, and for compatibility issues, prefer the MS Word package.

Oh, by the way, than you for your wise advice on 200-plus documents being a complete impossibility on MS Word. I'll remember that, next time I read a PhD theses. I'll just look at it and say: "this is not possible, because Fanboy sait it on Slashdot." Seriously, get a job.

OpenOffice.org has had - what, almost 10 years? - time to play catch-up, but it just didn't. This says something about it, doesn't it? Oh, wait, I forget, you're almost blind.