--- Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:

> Since one of his AutoCAD add ons will not even work
> under Win2k and instead
> requires WinME and since he already has licenses for
> those, I am Thinking
> VMWare is a better way to go.  I think he will like
> OO.org Writer better then
> Word, but will probably use MS Excel more then the
> OO.org counterpart (mostly
> due to the ability to do recursive numeral
> resolutions with just a few clicks)
> 
> However, with the exception of AutoCAD and his uber
> expensive add on packages,
> I think he will use the Linux side more and more. 
> If some one knows of a
> MatchCAD or Mathmatica like product that is open
> source then I may even get
> him off of excel.
> 
> Oh, and does any one know of a good CD-R, CDRW, &
> DVDR GUI?  I do not think
> cdrecord will be his friend for a while.

This may not get him off of Excel, but though I'd
mention it anyway...

http://www.octave.org/

It seems more like pure computational software like
Maple or Matlab. Personally, never heard of using
Mathmatica for simple formulas, but I haven't used it
since college.
 



		
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