[mdlug] IBM plants Linux on the desktop

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > From: Michael S. Mikowski
> >
> > Could you share /why/ she wanted back?  Were there
> > specific features or performance issues?
>
>  "I do not like the Linux office programs and I feel
> like I have given them the old college try.  I simply
> do not care for it... when it takes me three hours to
> do something I could have done in one hour, it is not
> benefiting myself nor our family."
>

Thanks for responding Ray.  I really appreciate it.

You know, she /is/ right in a way.  OOffice really does 
suck for productivity, /as does/ MS Office.  I do think 
she could do everything just as well in OOffice, but hey, 
maybe she will reconsider when a whole new 
interface "ribbon" interface shows up for the "the doubly 
locked-in" edition (a.k.a "Vista").

At any rate, I could do stuff in Applix 2-4x faster than 
either of them, since the windows were not modal style, 
but traditional Unix style.  That meant I could open the 
image editor, the paragraph editor, the table editor, 
etc., all at once and keep them open and use them 
contextually.  And it was fantastically fast (like 1s to 
open most documents).  OLE was superior as well.

Too bad it got swallowed up with that "has to work 
flawlessly with MS Office" proprietary vendor lock-in 
shit.  Honestly, the /only/ suite I /can/ consider using 
outside of MS Office is OOffice due to compatibility 
issues.

$0.02

Cheers, Mike
-- 
Mike
www.dynaorg.com