The new up and coming HancomOffice 2.0 according to LinuxWorld.com could be a serious contender for StarOffice and Microsoft Office. The most interesting point is that the same boxed product can be installed on Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris. This could be great for people switching operating systems as they could continue to use the same office package on their new OS, without even having to purchase new software. A Preview version is already available for download.
HancomOffice 2.0 Preview Available
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Cool, I think Gobe Productive 3 looks better though
Not much of the suite is available and from the posts on their comment board people are having troouble installing and running the packages that are available. They probably should have waited until they have more of the suite done beacuse people are going to be disappointed with what they find and not bother with the final product.
I looked at the StarOffice 6 beta and HancomOffice stuff. StarOffice is far superior. Although I like StarOffice, 5.2 and prior releases all had things about them I really didn’t like (like the pseudo desktop interface). StarOffice 6 has changed all that.
I don’t think any software program is perfect, but I was impressed with StarOffice 6’s speed (the text editor starts on my machine in under 3 seconds), the screen font was beautiful and easy to read, the templates are professional and very useful, the speadsheet program has a couple of bug fixes that really make me happy, and as usual, I can run it on Windows and Linux. I don’t have to switch word processors when I switch my OS.
Basically, I am very pleased with StarOffice 6 beta.
HancomOffice is nowhere near this good. At least not yet.
Of course, it’s nice to see a new contender of the block.
But
– 3 toolbars on the left side in word processor ? Who is ever going to use them ?
– No transparency in color selector in the graphic editor ?
– Does it has spellchecker ? I guess it does but how good is it – I see enough typos in the presented screenshots.
Screenshots are kind of incosistent – different wm, at least.
I’m wondering about their Embedded version – the iPaq picture is blurry
so you can’t really see what’s on the screen. Of course, it’s on purpose, as the product is not ready yet. AFAIK to run Linux on iPaq you need 32M of memory, and I’m wondering how they did X+Qt+ their office squeeze in it.
Their version 1.5 recommendation was 64M.