>>> blutgens at sistina.com 06/06/01 08:24AM >>> >Star Office sucks. It's not viable at all as an alternative to M$ Products if >you're in an environment with lots of windows users and need to exchange >documents. Very true, for that purpose, and true also for specific parts (at least in 5.1). I am not overly fond of MS Office however, but it does address the intentional "compatibility" issues (that still gets under my skin, grrr...). >If you really need to use your office apps, you'll use M$. If you're a geek, >use flat text, or PostScript, or even go so far as to fireup vmware and run >MS products from that. Looking at the pricing of Office XP, I do not know if we could upgrade to it without laying off a few people. >Star Office needs to go away. It's a huge bloated useless pile of crap that >takes up way to much space on harddrives. It's like a big teaser. Linux is not >a desktop OS your grandma would want to use and it goes deeper than just the >lack of a decent processor. I honestly don't know if my grandma would know the difference. :-) Have a fabulous day, Troy