Wine and Office

MJang michael at ywow.org
Mon Aug 25 03:33:33 UTC 2003


Dear Jim,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Cornette" <jim-cornette at columbus.rr.com>
> Except for Access, what does Office do that Openoffice does not handle.
> Why run the MSoffice on Linux? Is it valuable or just a contest to see
> how many win32 programs from Microsoft that you can run?

While OpenOffice.org Write is now close, it is not adequate for some publishers whose infrastructure is based on MS Word and related
apps. For example, some publishers have specialty scripts within MS Word that just don't work for OOo Write for Windows, much less
for OOo Write for Linux.

Thanks,
Mike Jang






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