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To: Steve Wren who wrote (6739)	1/13/1998 11:09:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) of 64865

Why doesn't Sun colaborate with Lotus/IBM or Corel/Wordperfect to provide a complete desktop solution on Solaris that competes with what Microsoft Office provides on Windows based PCs and Macintoshes? First they have to lay a foundation upon which to build a set of interoperable, extensible components. That has been taking too long, IMO, although they finally have a start with Lotus' eSuite. They don't have a spelling checker for their wordprocessor; the number of spreadsheet operators is limited; and the product only works on Windows. In other words, the eSuite management and designers should be immediately dismissed because they are incompetent. Think of a document consisting of a list paragraph objects; now consider that each paragraph is a list of text segments of like characteristics: Arial 12 point in bold type, for example. How is it possible that IBM doesn't have the brains to provide general, extensible operations on those paragraphs and segments? Anybody who thinks a spelling checker is an avanced option doesn't belong anywhere near that project. Corel had an excuse: no experience developing modern, object-oriented software combined with managerial buffoonery. What is IBM's excuse? IBM, do us a favor: skip the website videos and get to work developing a practical office-pack that isn't the laughing stock of the world. They will get it right but hopefully they have the guts to terminate whoever is responsible for this initial fiasco. People should go to www.lotus.com and fill the survey with a request for basic functionality like a spelling checker. Microsoft will EAT THEM ALIVE for this. Again, it's not the spelling checker, it's what it tells me about their crumby-ass design -- sorry for the french but this needs to be emphatic. IBM! HELLO!!!!

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