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To: t2 who wrote (29079)	9/2/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: Teflon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

<OT>t2k and anyone else who's a believer in "The Gorilla Game" and follows Uncle Frank's Thread, "Gorilla and King Portfolio". I have recently started a new Thread that focuses on the potential synergies between Gorilla investing and Internet investing. Anyone that's interested is welcome to stop by and participate. Subject 30511 The goal of these discussions to is outline some terminology that addresses the new world of "ebusiness" within the context of The Gorilla Game. It is NOT intended to be a forum for discussing good Internet trades in the Market, though hopefully some of those findings will result from these discussions. Teflon

To: t2 who wrote (29079)	9/2/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: taxman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

"Companies just stopped buying [Corel WordPerfect]." well not completely. corel had $250,000,000 of revenue last twelve months and has not stopped breathing yet. The popular mainstay of its line, CorelDRAW, has grown from an illustration program into a vivid electronic palette of artist's tools. Other products include Corel WordPerfect Suite, Corel Office Professional Suite, CorelVIDEO (videoconferencing), and CorelCAD (3-D computer-aided design). by the way, i'm still a quattro pro fan. regards

To: t2 who wrote (29079)	9/2/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: blankmind	Respond to of 74651

- you're correct - I mean, how can you say $300 is too much for MS Word when it would cost $1,000 or more to train workers to learn another package?

To: t2 who wrote (29079)	9/2/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

It will take a lot more than a strong competitive product to lure people away from Office and take "gambles" on alternatives. I was curious enough that I just downloaded Star Office and mucked around in it for a moment. I have to agree with you and others who see it only as a minor irritation and not (or at least not yet) as a threat to Microsoft Office. It might, as some comments here and some articles have said, "chip away" at Office -- especially when the "portal version" is available, but only small chips. If anything, it will probably be most appealing to those who "borrow" their copy of Office from the office. Star Office has a weird interface that looks like something Office might want to do but has mercifully been prevented from doing. It puts its own new desktop up and expects the user to do everything from there. Perhaps there's some way to get around that, but it isn't obvious. That's irritating because I prefer to have the desktop I've already arranged behind all my windows. It even covers up the Windows taskbar. It has a very poor implementation of file dialogs that lack most of the power of even the simplest standard Windows dialogs. Each of the major programs is similar to the Microsoft counterpart, but just different enough to be irritating when one is accustomed to the other program. Concerning the download: It's a 65 meg zipped file that is downloads and uncrunches into a setup program. It took me 15 minutes to download with a 640 kbps connection. Setup, including the unzipping, took 10 minutes and a reboot (which, since this is NT adds another 10 minutes <g>, but that's not Sun's fault.) The setup program itself is similar to the Acme setup engine used on every version of Office until the current O-2k, and includes similar options. After running through several parts of the Star suite, I exited and was greeting with a Dr. Watson meditation. In other words, the thing crashed. Bottom line: I'll delete it soon after playing around just a bit more.