[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-14, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-09-13, Kerry Main <kerry.main at backtothefutureit.com> wrote:
>>
>> That's one lesson we should always be thinking about .. same was said 
>> for Wordperfect ever being replaced by anything or "Apple is dead" 
>> (remember Jobs had to be brought back to save Apple) or "everyone
>> has an iphone - who can ever challenge that?" (enter Samsung).
>>
>
> Actually WordPerfect works very nicely on VMS, including within a
> VMS batch job. Makes the _automatic_ creation of letters to customers
> direct from VMS easy.
>
> BTW, before the change in my situation, I had been thinking about what
> it could be replaced with if needed and I was looking at OpenOffice in
> headless mode running on Linux.

LibreOffice supports the import (but not export) of WordPerfect files.

See links in the following post for more info:

<http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/17246/wordperfect-and-current-libreoffice/>

The Document Liberation Project:

<http://www.documentliberation.org/projects/>


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