[Gllug] Voluntary work

[Gordon Joly]

At 16:12 +0000 2003/11/13, Tethys wrote:
>Gordon Joly writes:
>
> >At 15:14 +0000 2003/11/13, Harry Mantheakis wrote:
>>> > Microsoft's biggest advantage
>>>
>>>MS Office - Word and Excel in particular - I would say.
>>>
>>>Just my tuppence :-)
>>>
>>>Harry Mantheakis
>>
>>OpenOffice.org has adequate replacements.
>
>No, it has substandard replacements. Abiword and gnumeric are better,
>but still not good enough to replace the features of Word and Excel
>that are in everyday use in businesses. We're considering migrating
>users to a Linux desktop here, but the barriers are very high. We
>think that certain departments can get away with the Linux based
>alternatives to Word and Excel, but many can't.
>
>Tet


OK. I stand corrected!

All I know is the OpenOffice.org features of word processor have been very useful to me. I have Abiword as well.

Gordo

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