I haven't given it a complete exercise but StarOffice from Sun seems to work perfectly well with all my legacy MS Word docs. The latest version (6.0, I think) is not free but $60 for a complete office suite is more than reasonable. I also use Crossover because Lotus Notes is a big part of the productivity suite around here and IBM hasn't seen fit to port a Notes client to Linux. I can't really speak to Crossover's ability to support MS Office but it does a bang up job with Notes.
Randy On 12 Nov 2002, Anton Piatek wrote: > Just one question... dont you have to buy a copy of office too? cause > $50 for corssover is a fine price, but i thought you have to have a copy > of office too... yes, you have to already have all your own copies of the windows apps that you want to run. crossover office is *not* an office suite -- it's a variation of the wine software that allows you to simply *run* certain windows apps on your linux box. and while you obviously have the extra cost of MS software, there is the advantage that you're absolutely guaranteed compatibility with MS office since, clearly, that's exactly what you're running. you're not saving on the price of MS office. you're saving in that you don't need to purchase and run an MS O.S. which is, by itself, a small mercy. for those who have no exposure to the crossover products, you might as well waste a minute or two and check it out at www.codeweavers.com. rday -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
