[nylug-talk] Trend Micro sues Barracuda over ClamAV

[Ajai Khattri]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, [utf-8] Zach Stern wrote:

> Catered to by non-windows alternatives? Which office suite are you 
> speaking of exactly. Because I've tried quite a few (koffice, 
> openoffice, abiword and the rest of the goffice stuff, and ibms new 
> lotus symphony)
> 
> None of them come even close to measuring up.

That of course, depends on what you're doing. But I think for MOST tasks 
they are Good Enough, maybe not for YOU. (For evidence of this, I would 
suggest you do some Googling of large scale deployments in government 
organizations here and abroad, that have started happening over the past 5
years, that have been reported widely).

So far Ive managed to get away with not having to install Office on my Mac 
at work even though the very large company that owns the company I work 
for (dont want to name names here) are about as rigidly corporate in their 
IT as you can get (Even memos sent by email are often annoyingly sent 
attached as Word documents - like using a large sledgehammer to tap in a 
pin).


BTW, I actually used to think like you do too but Im much better now.



-- 
Aj.