[KLUG Members] Re: 100% Technical: Sun XML, VBscript conversion and other efforts ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:13, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 2.  Sun has released Javascript for OpenOffice, VB conversion project
> Sun has just released an OpenOffice-focused, "sandboxed" Javascript, and
> is pouring huge, direct support into supporting common VBScript in
> common MS Office documents "as-is."  This is a major move to get both
> the "nay-sayers" as well as the more important "we have tens of
> thousands of man hours in scripts" over.  60% of companies aren't
> staying with Office 97 just because they don't want to pay for the
> product, but they don't want to pay for the manhours lost in recoding
> some of their VB to work with Office XP.

I found the following articles of interest ...

http://www.newtechusa.com/ViewPoints/JavaStarOffice.asp =20

http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_08/magazine/departments/guestop/default.as=
p =20

It should be noted that these are from _Windows-centric_ companies and
organizations.

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