[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[yyyc186]

On Mar 20, 10:37 pm,
pech... at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter)
wrote:
>
> I've used WordPro... it's nowhere near as nice and responsive as the
> earlier AmiPro.
>
> I did like Symphony...
>
Response doesn't matter if the word processor is incapable of
completing the desired task.  Wordpro's tabbed document divisions
solved a _lot_ of problems.

The new word processors are mostly written in Java these days.  You
can kiss that responsiveness goodbye.  The new Symphony has nothing to
do with the old symphony.  It can open "some" Wordpro files, but not
many other formats.  Resource-wise, "pig" doesn't begin to describe
it.  They did impliment a much more complete support of Open Document
Format than any other word processor out there.  OpenOffice hasn't
even come close to implementing "master document pages" yet...they
have some pieces in place, but nothing which actually works.

>
> I'm running Ubuntu right now on this box...  I haven't had a problem with
> their updates lately.  They went through a patch of wild updates.
>

Cannonical left me and thousands of others high and dry with the last
kernel update before I gave up on it a couple months ago.  Despite the
pitchforks and torches appearing in their support forum, they chose to
adopt the French Foreign Legion motto "March or Die".  There was no
backout and no estimation of when they would have a fix.  I had to
move to SuSE.