[TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support *.mdb, *.vsd, *.dwg and *.mpp

[Mark R. Hinkle]

Just an fyi for those of you that are looking at the emulator approach, I am
a fairly new member that makes the Win4Lin emulator/integrator for running
Windows on Linux if you need any help figuring out if that's the way you
think you want to go I would be glad to help you out.

Regards,

Mark R. Hinkle
Vice President
NeTraverse
http://www.netraverse.com

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From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
Of Chris Bullock
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:42 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support *.mdb, *.vsd,
*.dwg and *.mpp


We have *tried* to save money at our office by deploying OpenOffice.
You will always have outside people that will send you .doc and .xls
with heavy formatting and OpenOffice does not handle this well.  I have
contacted OpenOffice with several issues and after about 4 months they
reply with a "no fix."  So if you take the time our IT staff tries to
sort out MS Office to OpenOffice conversions there is NO money saved.

For the visio you can try Kivio that comes with KDE.

So honestly I would keep the win emulator handy.

Don't get me wrong I think that OpenOffice and kivio are great but for a
standard I do not foresee it entering the corporate industry as long as
other people are still using MS Office.
my $.02
--cgb

Jim Ray wrote:

>Well, taking a *.doc file, opening it w/ openoffice and using *.sxw from
there was no prob.  However, I'm inevitably going to run into folks that
have gone astray and that have created a database, visio drawing, autocad
drawing and/or project file.
>
>What's the best way to handle the situation?  If there are linux apps that
do the trick, I'd surely like to know about 'em before running some kinda
win emulator.  Even if there were a file filter/translator thingie and i had
to learn a new app, I'd opt for new app over upteen layers of code executing
together nicely.
>
>HTH&L,
>
>Jim
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