openoffice is dead?

[Gary Layng]

You're lucky - I haven't a choice.  I'm supporting a browser-based application 
that *needs* IE, and doesn't play that nicely with OOo.  And that IE *needs* 
to be on Windows.  Nobody to my knowledge has managed to get it working on IE 
on Wine, as apparently they need something from Windows to render the web 
pages properly.

Silly application, really.

On March 7, 2011 12:50:12 pm James Knott wrote:
> E K wrote:
> > While looking for job, I have to learn the MS equivalent of every product
> > I know to be "relevant".
>
> My condolences.  With a few brief exceptions, I've never worked anywhere
> where I had to use MS Office.  This is going back to the late '80s, when
> I used Wordstar 2000.  When I was at IBM, we used Lotus Smart Suite and
> at another employer, we used OpenOffice (I suspect this one was because
> that employer was so cheap <g>).  In others, while MS Office was on the
> computer, I had no problems with installing and using OOo.  In those
> locations, I'd also install Thunderbird and Firefox, to use instead of
> Outlook and IE.  The places where I had to use MS Office were all short
> term contract jobs.  At home, I've used PC-Write, Describe (on OS/2) and
> OOo.
>
>
>
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