What have you been smoking? Apache is only a small piece of 9iAS. And also, the least interesting part. I stopped caring about a webserver years ago, now that everyone and their mother implemented one.
Saying that they 'turned apache into 9iAS' is like saying 'I invented the wheel and look! Ford turned it into a car!'.
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OK I know this is not serious, and I don't want to put any names here, but I just have to say that I know IRL a guy who is fantastically talented and works in the game industry. SOme might not call it art, but for me it's definitely the real thing.
Try CrossOver Office. It's somewhat cheaper and runs the Office apps as plain normal apps instead of an application (office) in an application (the VM itself). OTOH it's more limited than a whole VM.
I mean, if you want to use Windows applications, just install the Windows that came free with your computer.
Yeah, but then you'd have to reboot. I hate rebooting. And besides that, my company's laptop is too small to contain RH linux, Oracle 9iAS and a windows partition.
I bought CrossOver Office and it's $50. I think that's cheap if you are looking at buying another harddisk.
I already completely switched over, and I'm using CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office. It runs MS Office 2000 stable and quicker than on Windows. As an added bonus, it also runs IE and Outlook.
Of course you could use Wine, but this is a next-next-finish install and it runs VERY stable.
They offer a trial version. I loved it and then bought it. It's only $55, and you prolly have an MS Office license anyway from the corp. where you're working.
I wonder how much your customer, co-workers, and boss are willing to pay
Totally true. Speaking for myself, I will DEFINITELY not pay. Luckily (?) I have a laptop which I can use at home and, besides that, I thought the corporate license allows home use. But otherwise I would not pay for Office.
You can insisit that people send you stuff in a plain text or open standard format.
You're forgetting some stuff here. What if you have to edit it some and send it back? SO/OO just doesn't always save it faultless back to.doc/.xls/.ppt.
because the problem reporting database is completely inscrutable
Well, I reported two bugs on tables and the like and I found it not to be such a problem. It's just bugzilla that you have to get used to a little bit. I just did a quick search and if I couldn't find it, I sumbitted it.
It might be a bit blunt, but I'm not going to put hours in submitting one bug. The receiving guy knows the database much better than I do.
And I gotta say, the reaction was quick and very polite, even providing workarounds and stuff.
Yeah, it's true. For instance, table cells larger than 1 page are not supported by Star/Openoffice because their table model doesn't support it. This is something for version 2, which'll probably take a year.
Of course, you'd think who has such documents, well, a client where we're working has lots of those:-/
About the documentation of the.doc format: I thought the guys from the wv2 library have got it pretty much covered. Of course, then all that data has to be mapped to the functionality of the application which uses the wv2 lib... KOffice and AbiWord use it, but don't cover everything wv2 can read!
I don't think the OS is any problem, I think the software is. If they want to stay on the open source path, they're going to have to use StarOffice or OpenOffice.
While it has very good Word im-/export, it's not yet faultless (and won't be any time soon, because of inherent limitations of OpenOffice). And you NEED that import, because otherwise you can't exchange documents outside of your department.
They could also use the excellent CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office but then they'll probably pay more $$$ for the MS Office licenses than when they make a OS+Office deal with the MS sales reps.
Either way, they'll have to solve a problem, now or in the future. Then again, Windows brings its own host of problems.
I guess my point is that both of them are basically crap software
Pfffff not to target you specifically, but that's about the zillionth time that I've heard people complain about their business software from {SAP, Baan, Oracle, PeopleSoft,...}. This is not good, that is not good, such is not good. Just like some other ebusiness suite would be perfect.
And then when I ask them why they hate it so much, they tell me it is because they have to write their hours every week! Whiners, that's what they are.
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Why not install Kazaa in a virtual machine like VMWare or Bochs? Or run Linux, Wine and Kazaa Lite, in a separate user. All the fun but no hassles.
Saying that they 'turned apache into 9iAS' is like saying 'I invented the wheel and look! Ford turned it into a car!'.
What's with the sig?
OK I know this is not serious, and I don't want to put any names here, but I just have to say that I know IRL a guy who is fantastically talented and works in the game industry. SOme might not call it art, but for me it's definitely the real thing.
I bought CrossOver Office and it's $50. I think that's cheap if you are looking at buying another harddisk.
> Sure it does. And your daddy is the toothfairy.
Well, have you tried it?
Of course you could use Wine, but this is a next-next-finish install and it runs VERY stable. They offer a trial version. I loved it and then bought it. It's only $55, and you prolly have an MS Office license anyway from the corp. where you're working.
But if it's some thingy in OpenOffice, they are irritated and ask me why the fsck I'm not acting 'normal' and use MS Office...
That's what you say, but I've heard it more than once.
It might be a bit blunt, but I'm not going to put hours in submitting one bug. The receiving guy knows the database much better than I do.
And I gotta say, the reaction was quick and very polite, even providing workarounds and stuff.
Of course, you'd think who has such documents, well, a client where we're working has lots of those :-/
About the documentation of the .doc format: I thought the guys from the wv2 library have got it pretty much covered. Of course, then all that data has to be mapped to the functionality of the application which uses the wv2 lib... KOffice and AbiWord use it, but don't cover everything wv2 can read!
OK I get it... Thank you. Sometimes my sense of humour needs a kick.
I bought it, it's very cheap($55). It's fast, stable and of course doesn't have im/export problems. It even runs Outlook and IE!
And just being curious: does MS provide tools to migrate from 97 to XP?
Ummm... You're new here aren't you...
While it has very good Word im-/export, it's not yet faultless (and won't be any time soon, because of inherent limitations of OpenOffice). And you NEED that import, because otherwise you can't exchange documents outside of your department.
They could also use the excellent CodeWeavers' CrossOver Office but then they'll probably pay more $$$ for the MS Office licenses than when they make a OS+Office deal with the MS sales reps.
Either way, they'll have to solve a problem, now or in the future. Then again, Windows brings its own host of problems.
And then when I ask them why they hate it so much, they tell me it is because they have to write their hours every week! Whiners, that's what they are.
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Aaah the wonders of Mozilla.