On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:38 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: > I'm trying to find a professional word processor for Linux without > using Crossover or Wine. [...] I am downloading StarOffice v7.0 from > Sun's site, at the moment, but do not know of a single person who is > using it. > I use StarOffice 7, and have done so since it was released. I have been extremely satisfied with the product, even though I routinely exchange complicated financial models with about 30 people in various companies, all of whom use MS Word. The only "trick" I learned in order to obtain peace on Earth was to save documents which I created, and which only I would use, in StarOffice formats. Docs which I created but knew I would share, I saved initially in MS Office formats. Circulating them then never caused any problems. StarOffice has been enough of a success that I am close to convincing my boss to move part of the office to Linux and StarOffice based on its performance on my computer. I am now testing OO on FC3 and will also test the upcoming OO2 when it's ready. However, I've been happy enough with StarOffice that I will buy a copy of StarOffice 8 when it's released, *just* to support their efforts even if I end up not using it. Given my experience so far, the likelihood of my using SO8 is very high. And my satisfaction with SO7 has also been very high. Cheers, -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
