Hello,
Does anybody know where and/or when one could
find compiled, stand-alone binaries for the
whole KOffice suite?
By this I mean one or more binaries that one
could just copy on any winXX/Linux/sparc machine
and run off the box, without any prerequisite.
The reason for this request is that, in mine and
many other companies, the upper management is trying
to impose a complete switch from (in my case) Solaris
to MS-only platforms (does anybody remember Civileme?).
Unfortunately, lots of people still believe that (apparently)
lower TCO costs and GUI-only environments are all it takes
to make *any* company successful...
What's even more desolating is that one of the reasons to
downgrade every engineer to the MS level is "to speed internal
communications", i.e. to email everybody a 10 words
meeting call written in ... Powerpoint (it *DID* happen...)
An easy to install complete office suite which is:
even more free than StarOffice
full featured, but
less demanding than Office 2000, and
much more stable
could be a very useful weapon in such a fight (I'm thinking to
presentation slides with a footer like "made with the free,
cross-platform KOffice suite")
<<HINT MODE ON>>
If such stand-alone packages don't exist yet, is there any
Linux distributor aiming at the desktop market willing to
build them? It would also provide tons of testers, and make
a good point whenever one is trying to say to his company
"let's not waste money like this, we have Linux"
<<HINT MODE OFF>>
DISCLAIMER: as is painfully obvious from the body of this
message, all the opinions and requests above are only mine,
and do NOT reflect the positions of my employer.
Thanks for your time,
Marco Fioretti
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