OpenOffice has mail merge, forms, and a report writer using an extensive
number of data sources including most databases, spreadsheet files, and
others using a variety of connection methods including ODBC, JDBC, and
direct connections.  Macros can be written in a number of popular scripting
languages, and the source to OpenOffice is available for free allowing bug
fixing and enhancements internally, or can be submitted for inclusion in the
official source code.  PDF has been a well supported output file format for
quite sometime.

OpenOffice is overkill for a simple mail merge application.  But, if you
take advantage of all of its ability to create documents, spreadsheets,
presentations, database interface, extensive output formats, customization,
online support and documentation, etc., you will be getting a fantastic
deal.  The

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Brent Moore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It is with great reluctance we have decided to move from our HP3000 to the
> HPUX. I am hoping there are still enough people around that can give me
> some
> advice on products to use for spooling and batch processing.
>
> We use Speedware for development so that is not a problem but we use
> Fantasia to produce forms and mail merge data for monthly and yearly
> statements. Openseas has a product to move Fantasia over to the UNIX box
> but we feel it is a little pricey.
>
> I hope there are some people that still belong to this blog that have gone
> thru
> this conversion and are willing to share their thoughts. Thanks
>
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