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RFC: Office suite and price suggestions
- To: IGLU <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: RFC: Office suite and price suggestions
- From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)kde.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 16:59:10 +0300
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
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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