I used to live in San Fracisco. In my oh-so-Windows centric job I got to deploy an SMS server today. Oh joy... I'd much rather be a part of the Open Source / Linux wave, and I do like the Bay Area, but...
In your neanderthal state my ferrets are illegal. My five fuzzies are my babies. They don't bite, but they might lick you to death trying to make friends. Still, California is the only state in the continental US that defines them as "wild" animals and bans them, despite 2,500 years of domestication.
Just one more example of why the Left Coast isn't the paradise it's cracked up to be. Here in the Triangle, where Red Hat is located, it's pretty darned nice, taxes are lower, the cost of living and doing business is lower, and my ferrets are legal.:) I think both Red Hat and I will be here for the forseeable future.
As somebody already pointed out, StarOffice 5.1 has import and export filters for Office '97 and Office 2000 documents, and they are amazingly good. Oh, I wouldn't want to convert a 200 page document with lots of graphics and tables, but, wait... MS Word won't support that kind of a document to begin with. Microsoft says you have to break it down into nice bite-size pieces. That's something you don't have to do with Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux, which also has a nice Word '97 filter. I haven't used ApplixWare, but it adevertises Office '97 compatibility, too. So, where's the problem?
Please remember that the venerable WordStar once had 96% of the word processing market. Where is it today? A new OS will set new standards. The change is already happening, even in the Windows world. Corel WordPerfect Suite has already recaptured 15% of the office suite market, up from 2% a couple of years ago.
"The times they are a-achanging", and so are the software standards, thankfully.
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I used to live in San Fracisco. In my oh-so-Windows centric job I got to deploy an SMS server today. Oh joy... I'd much rather be a part of the Open Source / Linux wave, and I do like the Bay Area, but...
:) I think both Red Hat and I will be here for the forseeable future.
In your neanderthal state my ferrets are illegal. My five fuzzies are my babies. They don't bite, but they might lick you to death trying to make friends. Still, California is the only state in the continental US that defines them as "wild" animals and bans them, despite 2,500 years of domestication.
Just one more example of why the Left Coast isn't the paradise it's cracked up to be. Here in the Triangle, where Red Hat is located, it's pretty darned nice, taxes are lower, the cost of living and doing business is lower, and my ferrets are legal.
As somebody already pointed out, StarOffice 5.1 has import and export filters for Office '97 and Office 2000 documents, and they are amazingly good. Oh, I wouldn't want to convert a 200 page document with lots of graphics and tables, but, wait... MS Word won't support that kind of a document to begin with. Microsoft says you have to break it down into nice bite-size pieces. That's something you don't have to do with Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux, which also has a nice Word '97 filter. I haven't used ApplixWare, but it adevertises Office '97 compatibility, too. So, where's the problem?
Please remember that the venerable WordStar once had 96% of the word processing market. Where is it today? A new OS will set new standards. The change is already happening, even in the Windows world. Corel WordPerfect Suite has already recaptured 15% of the office suite market, up from 2% a couple of years ago.
"The times they are a-achanging", and so are the software standards, thankfully.