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Re: Zombit
Hello,
I just wanna fix something -
STAROFFICE 5.0 is better than office 97, compact than office (even 95).
The only this that office 97 is better than STAROFFICE is the clipart, which
you can easily import from
OFFICE. now, he should tell them, that staroffice 6.0, that'll probably come
at the end of the year,
will include FULL hebrew/arabic support.
another thing he should tell - KDE almost completly supports hebrew,
and switching languages is as easy as ten mouse clicks (not as slow95/98
that u need to re-install a version with another lang.).
Bye, allow.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander L. Belikoff <abel@bfr.co.il>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: יום חמישי 13 מאי 1999 15:35
Subject: Re: Zombit
>Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il> writes:
>
>> In my opinion in the next 3-5 year linux is not going to enter
>> meny corporate workstations due to lack of software, also home
workstations
>
>Speak for yourself, not for say Bloomberg L.P. :-)
>
>Now, I cannot help being a wiseass, so here is my NIS.02 for Ze'ev
>(I'm sure he knows all that):
>
>1. The presentation should be test-run in advance many times, possibly
> in front of a mirror. This includes everything up to mouse clicks
> and wondows' moving.
>
>2. Gnome and KDE are big and almost equal in features. I'd suggest not
> to confuse people with presenting both of them. I personally would
> use only KDE because it has a *less* fancy look and it is included
> in most of Linux distributions as a default GUI (no flamewars
> please) (~30 seconds).
>
>3. Since Linux is not quite ready to replace a *home* desktop for an
> average user, the presentation should not be claim that Linux is a
> replacement for home desktop. It should say however, that Linux is
> a great desktop for power users, programmers and Web people. (~15
> seconds).
>
>4. An office suite should definitely be presented. Since StartOffice
> is close in features to MS Office 95, I'd suggest using it in the
> presentation. What would be even more impressive is to have a
> connection to some other machine/server running Samba and
> StarOffice to show networked office capabilities (something like
> remote document fetching/publishing/whatever) (~40-50 seconds)
>
>5. A reference to the linux.org.il should be given.
>
>6. Summary, the plan of attack:
>
> I. "You already heard about Linux..." - Linux intro (popular,
> # of mlns of users, users in Israel)
>
> II. "Contrary to the opular myth, modern Linux is extremely
> easy to install..." (automatic hw detection, snapshot
> from COL 2.2 install would help) [25 sec.]
>
> III. "Let's take a look at the typical linux desktop.." (demo
> of KDE desktop, StarOffice, Word doc's import, spreadsheet doc
> w/ graphics, networked document fetching, access to Samba and
> NT servers) [1+ minute]
>
> IV. "There are thousands of applications for Linux...",
> support by big companies (separate X desktop filled with apps)
> [10-15 sec.]
>
> V. "There are many popular games for Linux..." (demo from
> Civ/CTP, Quake 2, BFRIS, whatever) [30 sec.]
>
> VI. Conclusion "If you are into computers, give Linux a try.
> If you setup and office computing environment - you MUST
> look at linux. There is an Israeli Linux group..." [15-20
> sec.]
>
>--
>Alexander L. Belikoff
>Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
>abel@vallinor4.com, abel@bfr.co.il
>
>