Wordperfect Office 2000

[Kevin Brown]

Have you tried Applixware?  I'm debating on if I want to upgrade to 5.0, but so
far I've been happy with the versions that I do have.  It works in windows and
*nix without things like wine (they have versions for both types of OS).

OK, well they did for 4.41, but it looks like they stopped developing for the
windows platform, but with programs like Exceed you can run Applixware remotely
on a windows machine so you would have the same office suite as on linux.

One of the things I liked about it was a quote from the applixware mailing
list.  A guy was running it on a P200 with (I think) 64MB RAM running linux and
was serving the office suite to more than a dozen systems concurrently and the
system was only using about 20 - 30% of the CPU.  Try doing that with M$ Office.

Only $39.99 for it at tiger direct.  Beats the $150 you paid for Corel.

> OK, I'm a little disappointed:
> 
> I picked up a copy of Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe for Linux today.  I
> haven't found a free wordprocessor yet that I like, so I decided to give a
> commercial product a try.  So far, I'm not impressed.  When I pay about $150
> for an application, I assume that it will be written for my platform.  Not
> so with Wordperfect Office.  Typing "wordperfect" at the prompt invokes a
> wrapper script that calls WINE with the program "wpwin9.exe."  That's right,
> I've just been sold the Windows version of Wordperfect Office, with the
> addition of a hacked copy of WINE that allows it to (almost) run on my
> Linux laptop.
> 
> The installation began smoothly enough.  The setup script detected my Debian
> system and used dpkg to install the application components.  At the end of
> the install, I type "wordperfect," only to be answered with a segmentation
> fault.  After digging through the Wordperfect directories, I find an
> undocumented script, "setupWPO2000," which manages to fix things.  Granted,
> running a script isn't exactly painful, but it would be nice if their fancy
> User Guide mentioned it.  So now it actually starts, but it's slow, ugly,
> and inserts tildes into my document names (like MS-DOS does with Win95
> filenames).  Last I checked, UNIX had support for long filenames.
> 
> And Corel actually tries to pass itself off as a Linux company, what with
> Corel Linux OS and all.
> 
> But on the bright side, Wordperfect Office 2000 Deluxe does come with a free
> penguin beanie toy.  Almost makes up for the many DLL files now littered
> around my filesystem.