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Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
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Wed, 8 Dec 1999 03:25:48 GMT
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote:
So what's wrong with it? The fact that it's written in Java and runs like a
lame dog? Presumably that will become less of a problem. It's worthy of some
interest though if only because it'd be nice to have an open alternative to
MSOfice!

The fact that it runs like crap is the biggest part of it.  I also
don't like the all-in-one interface.  Its user interface feels like
an old off-bran Works-type program.

And I don't think it will qualify as an alternative to MS Office for
a LONG time, if ever.  The win32 version absolutely sucks - crashes,
runs like crap, etc.  The *nix versions are better, but those mostly
don't matter because in the real world, meaning the consumer world
or the business world, most people don't use *nix.

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  Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
 
(...) Yeah? Bummer - I only ever played about with it for about half an hour before, and I found it miraculous to effortlessly load msword docs on my solaris box at work! Not that I needed to of course, as all the documentation I did was in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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