Microsoft finds another excuse to sell you Windows licenses

Post #60,111 by ben_tilly 10/29/02 7:36:14 PM Reply	Microsoft finds another excuse to sell you Windows licenses They are arguing that Kmart [link\|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20021029/wr_nm/retail_kmart_bluelight_dc\|can't sell] off a department because the software licenses are non-transferable. Cheers, Ben "Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly." - [link\|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html\|Walter Mead]
Post #60,112 by mmoffitt 10/29/02 7:45:00 PM Reply	They are finally committing suicide. That is my impression after having to "activate" 8 licenses of Office XP Pro using a telephone (there was no 'Net connection at this place). I wouldn't go through that again on a bet. As I accomplished this task I thought, "This alone is worth switching to OpenOffice." I hope many, many others come to the same view (and I believe they will). bcnu, Mikem
Post #60,194 by wharris2 10/30/02 10:53:35 AM 10/30/02 10:54:17 AM Reply	Re: They are finally committing suicide. Open Office at home, myself. It actually seems to handle spreadsheets and Word documents very well. At least it hasn't barfed on anything I've Emailed to my home address to work on at home yet. Edited by wharris2 Oct. 30, 2002, 10:54:17 AM EST Expand All History
Post #60,202 by acagle 10/30/02 11:12:17 AM Reply	Re: I'm really diggin' OpenOffice. I haven't used it much as far as converting between Word and OO but so far I'm liking the Writer module. I especially like the feature that fills in words as you're typing them, which doesn't sound like much but it makes a difference when you have to type 'propliopithecine' a dozen times. I like the clean interface, too. Much like Ami Pro used to be. Wish they made an Access-like database though.
Post #60,291 by folkert 10/30/02 5:11:13 PM Reply	On it's way... Just not out of the gate yet... `[link\|mailto:curley95@attbi.com\|greg] - Grand-Master Artist in IT [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!] Your friendly Homeland Security Officer reminds: Hold Thumbprint to Screen for 5 seconds, we'll take the imprint, or Just continue to type on your keyboard, and we'll just sample your DNA.`
Post #60,369 by Andrew Grygus 10/31/02 12:23:37 AM Reply	Just how "Access-like" do you want it? Would you settle for something that works? [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #60,391 by static 10/31/02 6:05:22 AM Reply	That's a good point. If you're willing to learn SQL, managing a MySQL or a PostGres database isn't hard. Doing the funky Access interface magic is harder (CGI to the rescue :-) - but perhaps that's a good thing. I'm sure you've seen lots of Access databases that are rubbish or just plain broken. Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #60,450 by acagle 10/31/02 11:14:56 AM Reply	Re: Just how "Access-like" do you want it? Easy enough to build forms and write VB-ish code without having to code every.stinking.thing to make it do anything. Admittedly, I've had good success with Access (save v. 95 which sucked rocks, and v. 2000 whose "Help" system is absolutely atrocious). I mostly do 1-2 user things mostly geared toward data collection and tracking for research projects. It works well for that. And it has to be readily readable by SPSS and such.

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