[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Desktop Penguins -- OpenOffice v. MS Office/Win v. MS Office/Mac

[Adam Williams]

>>OpenOffice 1.0 for Windows/Linux renders MS Office 97/2000 for Windows
>>documents _more_like_the_original_ than MS Office 98/2001 for Mac.
>Okay, here's the issue that's preventing us from switching to Linux on the
>desktop.
>When it comes up that there is no M$-Office on Linux, I point out things like
>Open/Star-Office.  THEN I get the statement that people need M$-Access and
>how to do that with the Linux office products that don't have a database.
>When I point out that Star has a database module (that I've never tried, and
>know
>absolutely nothing about) I get the question about the thousands of M$-Access
>databases already created and if any Linux office product will convert
>them overas easily as it converts Word/Excel documents.
>That's where I'm stumped.  Any good ways to do this???

Come to my data access with linux presentation and see the beginnings of 
this.