Re: MS Office for Linux

[Ben Drasin <drasin@mindspring.com>]

Eric M. Bennett wrote:

> -snip- 
> The Mac version of Office does not include Access, for example... we might
> expect Word and Excel, since Corel is apparently planning to port Quattro
> to Linux.  But beyond that, there is not a mainstream presentation package
> being ported to Linux, so presumably they would feel no pressure to port
> PowerPoint.  Ditto for Access.

	Just for the record, Corel is porting Presents to Linux at least
according to Copland's ( very boring ) keynote.  As far as waiting for
MS ports to buy Linux apps, I would challenge anyone so inclined to
compare XWordperfect vs. Internet Explorer for Unix.  It is obvious
which is the more serious effort.

bye-Ben