Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Apr 2002 17:28 UTC
Hancom Office 2.01 is the latest version from the Korean company Hancom Linux, released only a few days ago. The company used to offer a Windows version of their product, but they have since completely focused on the Linux platform, even though their product is pretty portable as it is based almost solely in the Qt 3 tooklkit. In latest news, Hancom has canned their Professional version of their office suite (contained more applications in assosiation with TheKompany), and they now going with the Standard version, which is the version we review today. Update: From the Hancom press release: "200 Million Arabic Speakers Finally Have an Affordable, High-Quality Alternative to Microsoft - And Save 90% in the Process."
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I would really liked to hear about the performance in comparison with OpenOffice.org. While OOo is a really great piece of software, it is really very slow and reserves far too much memory. How about this Hancom one? Does it any better?
Yeah, and everyone should take a look at KOffice as well, which really gets better and better, and have a real integration with the KD Enviroment. And it supports more languages. And it supports spell checkers. (Does Hancom support the one assigned to KDE application in the Control centre???) And its filters gets better. And it is fast.
And everyone should take a look at the Gnome Office. Gnumeric may be the best spreadsheet for linux. Abiword still does not support tables, but in a few months it will.
So there are more alternatives/competitors to Hancom, so it really must get a bit polished, and must support e.g. XML and "save to .doc", and must be really fast and stable, or noone would buy it.
Cheers
Gaboro