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RFC: Office suite and price suggestions



Hi people,

I've been talking to the guys at Hancom (who makes Hancom Office) about the 
possibilities to make a hebrew version of Hancom office For Linux...

Well, there are interested, but first they want some feedback from the local 
Israeli users about some issues. If you can - please answer, and explain your 
points.

Short explanation about Hancom office: 

Hancom office is a suite that is an office suite which has english, japanese, 
korean (and other) versions. It includes a word processor, spreadsheat, 
presentation, and graphics editing. It was basically written for windows 
only. The version that can be found today (on http://www.hancom.com/en) is 
mostly written with QT while the word processor uses Wine-server.

The new version (2.0) which will be out soon has been completly ported to use 
QT 3, so it runs (from what I tested) very fast. Much faster then Star Office 
5.2 for example. You don't need QT or KDE to run it (it comes with it's own 
static QT version), and it runs under any window manager.

The new version will also include Kivio (visio clone with python scripting 
and stencils - more then what you get in koffice), and ReKall (which is like 
MS Access - but again, with Python instead of Visual Basic). One point that 
hasn't been closed yet is whatever you'll get Windows and Linux version on 
the same CD or not. 

Regarding hebrew - I do think (IMHO) that in the first stage the localization 
(hebrew menus and hebrew online) is not that important. IMHO it's much 
important to have all the bidi functions first (tables, paragraphs, nikud, 
importing Hebrew word documents, etc..)

So, lets go to the questions:

1. How much do you think you're willing to pay for this suite?
2. Is localization (hebrew online menu and menus) very important to you? if 
it won't have the localization but will have all the bidi stuff - will you 
still buy it?
3. Does a Windows version important to you (in terms of installing it in 
office)?

If you have any question - feel free to post it. 

Thanks,
-- 
Hetz Ben Hamo
hetz@kde.org

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