chen shapira wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> few things for the demo:
>
> 1. one question we will be asked will be: will star office read my old files?
Definitely YES!
Both english and russian (KOI8) texts made in Word were recognized by
StarOffice
5.1 and properly formatted. The same with a couple of PPT files
downloaded from
Microsoft site. Even more - my boss downloaded and installed SO5.1 for
Win32 on
his laptop. When I asked him why didn't he use M$ Office, he said there
are lot
of things that he can do with StarOffice and can't do with PowerPoint.
> 2. consider the following "cheat" for simulated hebrew support - lots of java
> products are multilinguistic, and java ofcourse run on linux. there's a
> multilingual java mail for example. write mail in hebrew, english, arabic and
> russian in the same letter without any fonts installed.
Java i18n requires some support on the OS level. E.g. the japanese java
application
won't work on machine with no japanese fonts and locales installed.
AFAIK hebrew locale is not supported by Sun JDK yet.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/internat/index.html
Anyway, locale definitions and font mapping are still needed, as well as
right-to-left direction support. Let's wait for Blackdown Java 2 port
released and add hebrew extensions there.
> 3. besides showing them that we do everything they allready do, how do we show
> them we do it better? I mean you can't show "linux won't crash" in a 5 min
> demo, right? (although mr. Gates managed to crash win98 in such demo)
Well, you can have Netscape, StarOffice, Gimp, Gnome & Enlightenment
and Doom running on the P120 with 64 Mb RAM. Just ask any win32 user
how much RAM does he have on his PC and how many applications
he can run at the same time :)
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