[ale] Native Office Suties

[Mark R. Lindsey]

Michael Warfield said:
: On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 04:39:46PM -0500, Richard Storey wrote:
: > Recently, I think that I read an article claiming the Star Office and Corel 
: > Wordperfect are not running natively on Linux, but by emulation or something. 
: >  It also claimed that Applixware is the only native Linux Office suite.  
: > Could anyone offer a brief explanation/confirmation of these claims?
: 
: 	Corel runs under Wine.  Applixware and StarOffice both run native.
: I have all three.  Corel is nice for a wide support of formats but
: can be a bit flakey.  Right now, I'm focusing on StarOffice.

I, too, like StarOffice. However relevant to the above discussion, one should
note that it actually runs on a Java Virtual Machine (JVM); this gives
it portability to run on most environments that have a JVM available without
waiting on Sun to port StarOffice itself.

StarOffice has a published Java API that can be used to extend it; see 
http://soldc.sun.com/staroffice/

Richard -- where was it that you were reading about that? Was the author
arguing that one office suite was superior than another?


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