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Byte: Jerry Pournelle — Chaos Manor, April

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 12, 1999

“Waiting For The ATI Driver: Meanwhile, Jerry hasn’t had a
chance to overhaul his Linux box.”

“For the moment the entire Corel Office Suite runs in Windows
only… However, even today WordPerfect runs under Linux, and by
Fall 1999 if not sooner, the entire Corel Office Suite will be
available for the Linux operating system.

“With that application Linux becomes a viable productivity tool,
because both Microsoft Office and the Corel Office Suite can read
and convert each other’s files. Both are plenty good enough to do
just about all the work required in the average office. Moreover,
Linux can link to a Microsoft network as well as to Macs, and many
prefer Linux to Microsoft NT as a web server operating system.

“… the important thing to note is that Microsoft has real
competition here in both their flagship products,…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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