On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:38:38AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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> On 15-Jul-2002/14:28 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I have a checklist about the programs which are used in our company. Most
> >of the vendors of these programs donĄŻt support Linux solutions/Clients
> >(hopefully it will change as soon as possible). Therefore I am looking for
> >alternatives by taking into account the compatibility to our existing
> >programs, because we will not migrate all PCĄŻs.
> >
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> >
> >MS Office 97/2002
>
> OpenOffice.org 1.0 has worked well for me when sharing documents with my
> MS Office using coworkers. All of the documents have been small and none
> had really complex formatting. StarOffice is the same as far as
> import/export, but it includes clipart, a database, and some other nice
> things that are proprietary, and therefore not in OpenOffice.org.
As a user who regularly works with MS Word documents, let me be frank
about the OpenOffice compability - it ain't there yet. You'll finds
lots of documents that don't translate correctly and these documents
don't even have to be all that complex. MS Word Viewer displays these
documents just fine, as does WordPerfect Office. Admitedly I've only
worked with OpenOffice on Windows but I expect the result to be the
same. If you're planning on betting your company on Office file
compability, don't count on OO today.
> >Lotus Notes Domino 5
>
> No native client on Linux, but it may run under Wine or Crossweaver.
> Complain to IBM and see if we can prod them into releasing a native Linux
> client.
Alternatively, use the web interface to Notes. It's not great yet, but
it does work. R6 is supposed to have a much better web interface but I
personally haven't worked with it yet. I regularly use the R5 web
interface when reading my office mail from home - it's usable and gives
you access to the calendar and address book modules. I don't believe
you've access to the rest of the Notes applications (at least I've never
tried to run our Notes apps through the web).
> >And last but not least one question:
> >If we come to the conclusion to migrate to Linux which Operating system
> >would you choose for a Desktop solution and WHY !?!?
Given the mailing list you're using, I'd say the majority will probably
choose Red Hat Linux. The why (for me) is that it is one of the
best-supported distros out there today. It has a long history,
hopefully a long future, and although it isn't always bleeding/leading
edge, it is rock solid. If you need security fixes, you can usually
count on Red Hat to be amongst the first set of vendors (Mandrake and
SuSe are also really good in this regard; TurboLinux is awful).
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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