Sw2003\4 and Star Office?

Our company are looking at ways to save on the huge licence fees wanted by
Windoze and we are looking at changing over to SuSe Linux servers and Star
Office. I have seen some posts referring that PDMWorks will run in a winbox
under Linux. I understand that the SW2003/4 workstations will have to run
Windoze XP and maybe even, MS Office (excel 2000 for SW2004), but I can not
see any problems for the rest of the network as these are databases that can
be converted to Star Office format.
Can you see any problems that we may encounter?

 

Does your company use design tables? If so you may be stuck with Microsoft
because of excel and it's OLE capabilities.

Keith

 

Only for the SW workstations tho. Everyone else can use Star/Open office
with no problems.

And really, unless you have some other app that only runs in windos, there's
no reason no to put linux on some of the desktops as well. And even some of
those apps run just fine with crossover office.

-nick e.

 

Have you thought about using Open Office?
It's still free where as Star Office now costs somewhere around $50.

 

Thanks for all the advice and yes, we will look at Open Office, now that you
have mentioned it.

I now have a copy of Suse 9.0 and will be testing it over Xmas, if not too
drunk, hic! and if the better half will let me
:-|
Now that Novell has Suse under their wings, it should be great.

 

If I recall correctly, Open Office does not (yet) include a database
application. I assune that is why the original poster is opting for
StarOffice.

Jim S.