http://www.osnews.com/story/969/Review_of_Hancom_Office_2_01_Standard_for_Linux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:37:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? The Sharp Zaurus (http://www.myzaurus.com) contains an embedded version of Hancom Office with Word, Sheet, and Presenter. The embedded versions work really well, and I have not had any problems with them so far (I've only had my zaurus about a week). Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? The suite will have a strong compeition with OpenOffice 6 (to be released next month), but I believe that Hancom will have a winner if they manage to bring the product is a more "clean" state before the OpenOffice folks do.

Firstly, it's called "OpenOffice.org". The name "OpenOffice" (without the ".org" on the end) is owned by somebody else. Secondly, OpenOffice.org is approaching 1.0, not 6.0. I think you're confusing it with Sun's StarOffice suite, which is based almost entirely on OpenOffice.org code (kind of like how Netscape is now based on Mozilla). OpenOffice.org is free software (GPL), while StarOffice is proprietary and will cost some money.

Otherwise the review was quite good Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Speaking of the Zaurus, Linuxgram.com just posted a story in which stated Lineo is history:

The Canopy Group and Egan-Managed Capital, two of Lineo's many investors, have been running a "notice of public sale" in a local Utah paper since April 8 apparently. It recalls the sheriff hammering a foreclosure sign on an Oklahoma farm with the butt-end of his gun during the dust storms of the Great Depression. Tue, 23 Apr 2002 01:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? 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 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments