Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Sep 2005 19:12 UTC
"StarOffice 8, the latest version of Sun's inexpensive, cross-platform office productivity suite, stands up better than ever next to Microsoft's market-leading Office in terms of features, extensibility and compatibility. In eWeek's tests of StarOffice 8, we were pleased with the suite's word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and database functions. In addition, we experienced generally good results opening and creating Microsoft Office-formatted documents with StarOffice."
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2005-07-06
So true. I don't know what was Corel's price tag back in those days, but it sure would have been a better acquisition target than Cobalt.
IIRC, it was worth around 1.1billion - but then again, they have a pretty good portfolio, couple what with the fact that Cobalt, in reality was only purchased with paper money - no real money was actually lost in the transaction, Corel would have been a better deal - imagine a sexy Opteron Workstation loaded with Solaris x86 + GNOME + Corel Wordperfect Suite.
Good workstations from SUN, running mainstream applications that would not only boost traditional markets, but help push their thin client technology.
I have used QPro a lot under DOS, and still think it's an excellent spreadsheet program. I have used WordPerfect Suite - Win 3.1 - and was extremely impressed with the package. I have no clue how portable it is, however. I remember that WP 8 was ported to Linux, and it was way too buggy. It had nice features, yes, but the bugs made it considerably less pleasant to use.
WP8 was probably more a biproduct of the fact that Linux has bugginess too, and that the WP8 was designed to be as portable as possible - WP8 on other platforms was pretty stable.
Mainsoft would have provided native, Win32 compatible libraries without all the drawbacks of emulation/ABI like wine provides - stability should also be very high in that Mainsofts product is derived directly off the Windows code base - not a hit and miss shot like wine currently is; you could call Mainsofts software the Carbon of the UNIX world - not quite native, but native enough to run the applications at a good speed and allowing vendors to port their applications without requiring a total re-write.