RE: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

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> As someone said on the forum, (well not quite in these words), they
> have now put the family jewels in a vice controlled by MS (win32 api).
> Even IBM pulled out of that game.

They will slowly convert it to an open API. I believe it partialy uses the
posix api and for the modules that could not be fitted in the timeframe,
they are doing it with winelib.
In this Internet age, where product release cycles are 2-3 months, everyone
is under pressure to release a product. It is a time to market issue, and I
believe Corel are doing the correct thing here by the community and by their
shareholders. Linux needs a high profile office suite, make no bones about
it and the market will react to it. I am eagerly looking forward to their
release.

>
> I'm interested in a package that is going to be around for years, not
> the latest flavour of the month, which is where Linux seems to be
> heading . I've got documents on floppies that are 10 years old and
> similarly I'm going to need to know that current documents will be
> accessable in 10 years time for reprinting. Not locked into a format
> accessable only by an application that relies on a build composed of
> various old versions of software that are no longer around. If Corel
> looses, this is what may happen.

Well, you have got lots of choices now. Stick to open standards, if you want
that kind of features. You have html, ps, txt, rtf and more to choose from.

"Change" is the name of the game. I do still have 8" floppies, but I will be
struggling to get a drive to read it nowadays. Things move on.
Sometimes, backward compatibility can hold a product back, just look at
Windows 9.x. Having the damm 16bit engine in still there has caused no amt.
of problems.... for both M$ and the users.
But they did it, since they had a market demand for it. If there is a
demand, people will do it, if not, it will just die.


-- Aravind



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