Götz Neumann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Bruce Toback wrote:
>
>> >The latest crop of high-end systems are 450 MHz Pentium
>> >II with 64 or 128 MB of SDRAM on a 100MHz motherboard, 18 GB of UltraDMA
>> >disk drive, a third generation DVD-ROM or a 40X CD-ROM and an AGP video
>> >card with 4 or 8 MB DRAM.
>>
>> That's the minimum system spec for Microsoft Office 2000. In fact, it's
>> actually a little short on memory.
>
>You may want to look at a FREE (for non-commercial use) office suite from
>http://www.stardivision.com/
>that may need less resources :-)
>
>I am not affiliated with them other than that it is a German company,
>and I like
>the idea of an Office suite running on all relevant desktop platforms.
Now, Götz is a man who writes what he means when he writes "all relevant
desktop platforms". I just downloaded StarOffice 5.0 Personal Edition for
free for the Macintosh and for Linux (which I run on my Macintosh, of
course).
Götz's recommendation sounds great. From the web site:
StarOffice is a premium office productivity suite which runs native on all
major operating environments including Solaris, Linux, Windows NT/95/98,
Macintosh, and OS/2. It has a fully integrated set of powerful applications
which provide word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations,
database access, HTML editor, mail/news reader, event planner, and formula
editor. StarOffice features a very familiar and intuitive user interface
which allows experienced Microsoft Office users to be productive almost
immediately. Furthermore, powerful document filters provide seamless and
easy interoperability with the Microsoft Office products.
Thanks, Götz!
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