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    The Linux Letter: The Database Engines That Could

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    I use the Open Office 2.0 application every day. While it is not 100% compatible with the evil empire, it does come darned close. For the typical office workload of spreadsheets and word processing it is just about 100%. One nice thing that the open office folks did in this release was put together much better help text and a summary of incompatibilities. That helps so you don't scratch your head looking for the comparable feature as they are not in the same orientation you may be used to in MS. The database is also particluarly good in this release. It is stable and robust in features. I have yet to embed it in any applications but as a part of Open Office it works fine. Independents out there who are tired of paying too much for an office suite should seriously consider this solution as it is free. It has one major feature that has been missing from MS for years:The ability to create a PDF of a document, whether it be Word processing, spreadsheet or presentation. John Patrick, the ex-IBMer who gave the keynote at COMMON last fall, used Open Office to deliver his slide presentation to the crowd. Also, all documents created in open Office 2.0 are can be saved in Open Document Format, MS, or a bunch of other formats for compatibility. It is worth a serious look!

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