From: E . A . Zen (ericzen_at_ez-net.com)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2003 - 06:53:30 EST
OpenOffice.Org gets way too much publicity if this quote is a reflection.
After the big face-stuffing period, I must hunt this Schomaker down and explain the wonderful work that's gone into wpd.
Here's a missive stro just sent (or more to it, I've just read):
On 2003.11.27 03:06 stro wrote:
In this story:
http://www.newsforge.com/trends/03/11/25/1723233.shtml
With Abiword having native WordPerfect filters and the fact that oo.org
doesn't, I found this interesting:
<snip>
"We are in the midst of doing a full migration to OpenOffice.org
city-wide."
That's over 800 seats, but Schomaker said the "The roll-out is not the
hard part. The hard part is migrating the old WordPerfect documents.
That's what we're doing right now."
</snip>
-stro
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 21:44, ericzen wrote:
> Issue #171 has been released
>
> Layfolk here: http://www.abisource.com/news
> Community reporters here: http://www.abisource.com/information/news/2003/awn171.phtml
>
>
> This week in development
>
> MS can't screw us over big; textboxes now include formattability, and Iomega reminds us that the only x86 operating system in the world is MS Windows. Also this week, BeOS gets closer to buildability, Win32 users can try out the latest Stable 2.0.x, and AbiWord saves someone between $100-$450. Plus, a special feature about Dutch pr0n!
>
>
> --
> Has the AWN always taken so long to write?
> --
>
>
> Have a wingdingy day,
> Eric
-- stro <stro_at_gnomedesktop.com>
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