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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Office Family:
>   StarOffice; Applixware; GNOME Office (in development)

You forgot Corel WordPerfect, in Win and Linux flavours (and by far a
more competent office suite than M$'s product)

[Personally I don't think linux will get anywhere with the mass market
until it can install and run ANY WinApp seamlessly, ie. such that the
average user can't tell the difference.]

~REZ~
(moderator, ILink_WordPerfect :)