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From: no_junk_email@nauplius.east.sun.com (Nils Nieuwejaar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 6 Feb 1997 18:04:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. - HPC
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V.S. Senthilkumar <vss@shell2.ba.best.com> wrote:
>Kaleb S. KEITHLEY (kaleb@osf.org) wrote:
>: Unix doesn't have applications??? What are you talking about?
>: Do you mean Linux doesn't have any applications?
>
>: The Open Systems Software Directory lists nearly 10,000 applications.
>: Sun's Catalyst catalog lists over 12,000 applications.
>
>: There's plenty of applications for Unix.
>
>Tell me a cheap and good word processing application for unix?
WordPerfect ($250 bundled with Motif, $165 if you're a student).
Applixware ($199 for a whole Linux suite, $79 if you are a student).
Corel's Java Office Suite (I don't think they've announce a price yet,
but the beta is available for downloading at their web site.)
Get Wabi from Caldera, and run your favorite win16 word processor.
In any case, if all you want to do is word processing, you don't need
Unix.
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