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From: pyeatt@.cs.colostate.edu (Larry Pyeatt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 6 Feb 1997 14:31:56 -0700
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
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In article <5dd1hr$lro@web.nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
|> In article <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org>, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kaleb@osf.org> wrote:
|> > The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications.
|> > Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications.
|>
|> OK, find me a decent word processor / office suite that runs on Digital UNIX
|> and isn't priced for 100 users. We have been looking for an alternative
|> office automation tool for our 5-10 workstation environments for our
|> customers and it's been cheaper to buy an NT workstation and use those
|> NT-remote packages (NTerprise, Windd, Wincenter).
Check out Applixware. It runs under Digital UNIX. The Linux version
is cheaper and better than Microsoft Office. I think the Digital
UNIX version is a little more expensive, but still cheaper than buying
NTerprise, etc + all your applications.
|> And of course NT in a multiuser environment is flakey as hell.
I'll bet!
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