office on wine

[gerard patel]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:00:16 GMT, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org>
wrote:
 
>I certainly agree that we do not need M$ Word, and I am going to start
>using one or more of the 'free' office suites and try to learn Tex. 
>But, business will want to use a commercial product [no I don't know
>why] (Isn't Open Office a commercial product??). 

IMO office suites in a non monopolistic environment will thrive
when a standard file format (including macros for mailmerge) happens.
But this is off topic :-)

> So, will WINE
>development focus on getting WordPerfect Office and/or Lotus Smart Suite
>to run on WINE?  Getting one of them 100% functional would be a major
>milestone.

It's unlikely Wine development will  focus on getting one specific
application to run - it's not the approach of the maintainer I think.
Anyway, I have always thought that a very complex app could not
be made to run at a 'commercial' level without help of the editor.
That is, a full blown product ported with help from Wine specialists
like codeweavers or macadamian (like it was done for Kylix). 

It's possible that something like that happens - IBM for example has
already used Wine for smaller apps.

Gerard