On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:00:16 GMT, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org> wrote: >I certainly agree that we do not need M$ Word, and I am going to start >using one or more of the 'free' office suites and try to learn Tex. >But, business will want to use a commercial product [no I don't know >why] (Isn't Open Office a commercial product??). IMO office suites in a non monopolistic environment will thrive when a standard file format (including macros for mailmerge) happens. But this is off topic :-) > So, will WINE >development focus on getting WordPerfect Office and/or Lotus Smart Suite >to run on WINE? Getting one of them 100% functional would be a major >milestone. It's unlikely Wine development will focus on getting one specific application to run - it's not the approach of the maintainer I think. Anyway, I have always thought that a very complex app could not be made to run at a 'commercial' level without help of the editor. That is, a full blown product ported with help from Wine specialists like codeweavers or macadamian (like it was done for Kylix). It's possible that something like that happens - IBM for example has already used Wine for smaller apps. Gerard _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
