Re: Alternatives to MS Office Opinions?

From: Huub (v.niekerk_at_freeler.nl)
Date: 06/05/04


Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 20:33:14 +0200

Ivan Marsh wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> The time has come for me to evaluate open source alternatives to MS Office
> rather than spend $400+ each for 300 stations so users can run Word and
> Excel.
>
> I need it to be stable, as compatible with MS Office as possible, and it
> has to run on Windows and Linux (I'm sure there are quite a few of those).
>
> Anyone have an opinion?
>
Try OpenOffice.org...available for Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows and very
much MS-compatible



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