Re: What's NEW on THE PAGE!!!

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Rick Rutherford writes:

@:) Well, I think you still have to take into account the LAN side of
@:) things.  Just because Sun wants to release the offices of the
@:) world from the bondage of MS Office doesn't mean they'll stop
@:) using it, and it would be helpful if whatever meta-application you
@:) guys come up with could translate the ship-generating Excel file
@:) into Lotus or Quattro Pro or whatever spreadsheet application
@:) already exists on people's LAN server.

  Very true.  Except that it's unlikely that it'll be Sun writing the
application.  Hey, maybe, I don't know, but the most likely scenario
is that someone else will write it.  And if Sun does write it and does
leave out features to work with legacy systems, then you can bet
someone else will write a version that really works and ours won't
sell.  Capitalism in action.

-joachim