Re: Office Suite War!

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 17,  2:12pm, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> Subject: Office Suite War!
>
>    Can someone please do a "side-by-side" comparison of Star-Office vs
> ApplixWare? Particularly size, speed, system requirements, etc. I'm
> looking for word processor (MS-Word clone) and spreadsheet (MS-Excel
> clone), but I think a general review here on the Apps list would be very
> useful!

<ONPULPIT>
MS-Word is a clone of Word Perfect, and MS-Excel is a clone of 1-2-3 (which was
a clone of VisiCalc).  Please don't give the beast at Redmond credit as the
creator, he's the one who makes clones (and poor ones at that).
</ONPULPIT>

I have used Applixware and find it very nice, no real problems yet.  My version
won't import the Word 7.0 documents,  but I'm told the newer on will.  I use
most extensively Corel Word Perfect 7.0 which is VERY nice and has every
feature you can imagine and takes up about 106Mb.  My applixware installation
takes up 223Mb.  I use a "free" spreadsheet called WingZ,  it takes up 6Mb.  It
is an X app and may not have all the latest features but it is very functional
and extremely fast.  Have also used the NeXs spreadsheet but found it rather
crippled in comparison.