From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 10:38:29 EDT
Wow! Those are beautiful. The hard part will choosing which ones to put in
the release. I think we only have room for one or at most two paragraphs
for AbiWord. (Gotta be brief, snappy and leave room for the glowing praise
for Gnumeric and Gnome-DB :-)
Cheers!
Martin
> For the record, Crowell Systems is a company that
> contracted me to do some AbiWord work for them.
> Specifically that burst of mail-merge related work.
> They're deploying AbiWord 2.0 on Linux on tens of
> thousands of seats.
>
> Here are 3 official quotes from their PR department
> that we're probably going to put into the press
> release:
>
> "The speed, ease of use, and customizability of
> AbiWord made upgrading our customers from Windows
> desktop to MfxLinux Desktop a do-able task."
>
> "AbiWord is directly invoked by our server application
> for the users desktop and feeds the mail merge fields
> from our Database. It's interface is easier to use
> than Microsoft's mail merge, which consequentially
> eased our customer's transition to the MfxLinux
> Desktop dramatically."
>
> "Support for AbiWord via the mailing lists and email
> has been incredible! We have had bug fixes in under 24
> hours...and you can't get that from Microsoft, even
> *if* you paid through the nose!"
>
> Here are a few quotes from one of the developers I've
> been working with on the project:
>
> "If you need quotes, I can give you a few, since I am
> still impressed by AbiWord's speed and ease of use.
> And our customers and trainers have said the interface
> to creating mail-merge documents is head and shoulders
> above the MS's."
>
> "And personally, thanx for making a really kick-ass
> piece of software that has made my life easier at
> work, and that I use almost exclusively for my
> personal desktop publishing needs."
>
> <grin>
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
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