[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Desktop Penguins -- "Ability Office" read Access MDB and has ADO support (2)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sat, 2002-05-11 at 21:39, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> "Ability Office 2000" Alpha Release for Linux:
> http://ability.com/linux/
> RPMs and install details are here:
> http://ability.com/linux/linuxdlsp.php
> It seems a few things run emulated under WINE.  That's probably for
> binary stuff they didn't write (like those components from Microsoft) --
> so they couldn't port with WINELIB.

More info on the product is here (although its the newer 2002 version --
although the 2000 version does basically the same except it doesn't do
Office XP):
http://ability.com/sales/products/database.php?pf=plain

Pricing is here ($29 for the download version):
http://ability.com/sales/order.php

The current Alpha test for Linux is free (expiration date???).

-- Bryan

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