As seen in Byte... R.I.P.

[Mark Street]

StarOffice 6.0 Beta is somewhat less bloated and seems to be a bit more 
stable, I have it installed on a few machines and it seems to work 
well.  Gone is the "all in one" interface.  Opening and converting M$ Word 
Docs and speadsheets works well with the latest filters.  I would agree 
that OpenOffice is a crash waiting to happen.

KOffice is starting to mature with the latest releases of KDE.

For the groupware "Outlook" work/look alike Ximian Evolution is looking 
quite promising.

Mark

At 05:35 PM 10/30/2001 -0800, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:12:57AM -0800, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> > A lot of people in my office are asking to be switched to StarOffice from
> > Microsoft Office.  I've been playing with it for awhile, it seems to be
> > kind of nice, if a bit kludgy.  At least it doesn't crash nearly as much.
>
>OpenOffice is probably less kludgy and more prone to crash.  (It's the open
>source version of StarOffice)
>
>Or you could switch to something like LaTeX; I understand there are some
>nice WYSIWYM editors for LaTeX that run on Windows.  There's also LyX, KLyX
>(KDE version), AucTeX for emacs, joe, vi, edit.exe, et cetera.
>never this easy to make customized resumes with a WYSIWYG word processor.)