WordPerfect 8: still unsurpassed (IMHO). No problems for MS->WP (at least for me); I can't say nothing for the contrary, WP->MS. (I am enough lucky.)
NExS and Xess spreadsheets: unsurpassed (IMHO); maybe gnumeric is nearing them... enough quickly too. (And at the gnumeric main page they even say: "thanks to the NExS people..." or something like this --thanks God and thanks to the NExS people.)
And: WordPerfect 8, NExS and Xess work nicely even with FreeBSD's Linux-emulation (my case, still; most best applications are for GNU/Linux: what I am making? Paris-Madrid via Zanzibar?... it may be interesting the first, even second time).
StarOffice: probably honest --if you like things a' la Swiss Army knive (not my case); StarOffice: for my taste is too much bloated: I also would use only a few items only out of too many... but I could even recommend it, why not. (To let us understand: my hi-fi is also not a monolith: I still prefer to choose/pay the few elements that I really need and want.)
I don't know for the rest. Perhaps these URLs may help:
> I am Swiss, and...:,( I could not dodge round the army (hey!... private soldier). I am punctually amused to view how much people can't resist such a play-thing... The model that I have received in the army (the simplest!... God thanks), the one that weighs less than one kilo and that one can still use with one hand, was... ehm... "good" to unscrew rifle butts, to disassemble rifle breechs and to spread emergency-rations of *pate'* on bread slices. (To cut bread one already needed to take some care for not chopping his fingers too.) Swiss chocolate: this is something!... Swiss chocolate can't be beaten so easily.
Agreed. Just and... practical would instead be a sentence that would _prevent_ MS to free itself of the own ballast: we make that it strains to peak with its merchandise, and we kill two birds with one stone.
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WordPerfect 8: still unsurpassed (IMHO). No problems for MS->WP (at least for me); I can't say nothing for the contrary, WP->MS. (I am enough lucky.)
NExS and Xess spreadsheets: unsurpassed (IMHO); maybe gnumeric is nearing them
And: WordPerfect 8, NExS and Xess work nicely even with FreeBSD's Linux-emulation (my case, still; most best applications are for GNU/Linux: what I am making? Paris-Madrid via Zanzibar?
StarOffice: probably honest --if you like things a' la Swiss Army knive (not my case); StarOffice: for my taste is too much bloated: I also would use only a few items only out of too many
I don't know for the rest. Perhaps these URLs may help:
http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/spreadsheets.html
Agreed. Plus: "All-gone!" ... in case you have some hard/soft-ware quirks.
> I am Swiss, and
soldier). I am punctually amused to view how much people can't resist such a play-thing
have received in the army (the simplest!
can still use with one hand, was
spread emergency-rations of *pate'* on bread slices. (To cut bread one already needed to take some care for
not chopping his fingers too.)
Swiss chocolate: this is something!
Agreed. Just and ... practical would instead be a sentence
that would _prevent_ MS to free itself of the own ballast: we
make that it strains to peak with its merchandise, and we kill two birds
with one stone.