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To: John Mireley who wrote (9954)	5/28/1998 7:52:00 AM
From: Beachbumm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: biz.yahoo.com I am going to call the FTC and the fraud division at DOJ. I have been repeatedly assured by Twister that NCs don't exist. This travel agency is being duped! Beachbumm

To: John Mireley who wrote (9954)	5/28/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: micromike	Respond to of 64865

Yeah I hear you. The point I was trying to make is that Sun should play the MS game. Why create a product when you can just knock off the most popular one. The NC is a ideal for office applications but to break the MS monopoly a great product isn't going to do it. The NC will have to be able to use the existing file and have very similar GUI since I would think most customers aren't interested in learning new commands and redoing the files as I have pointed out in my last post. JMHO Mike

To: John Mireley who wrote (9954)	5/29/1998 3:21:00 AM
From: TradingDuke	Respond to of 64865

Take a look at stardivision.com StarOffice 4.0 (soon 5.0) from StarDivision, a German company. They have a client/server office suite that is superior to Office97, much better integrated, has a great HTML editor and is multiplatform. It runs on Wintel, Linux, Solaris and others and they have a Java client too which runs on NCs. It understands M$ formats fairly well, but the problem of cause is that M$ will never publish their format specs and whenever somebody has cracked their stuff they move forward and sometimes screw themselves by not being able to understand their own cryptology. That's the difference between proprietary and open! Peter Long on SUNW