Re: Alternatives to MS Office Opinions?

From: Letalis (chaos_z_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/21/04


Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:44:29 GMT

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?
>
well like the previous guy said, staroffice is pretty good, (Openoffice
is suns implementation of staroffice only open source ie. like mozilla
is to netscape) anyway some of the export options are less than perfect
but as a word processor and spreadsheet, id say its one of the best
programs that you can get that wont cost a fortune to implement on
multiple machines.



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