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- >>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:
-
- > * Word processing: Microsoft Word.
-
- Microsoft Word 5.1 works really well, except there are some problems
- with the thesaurus. We're working on it. Word 6 doesn't work at all.
-
- * Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel.
-
- Excel 4 works well. Excel 5 doesn't work at all.
-
- * Database: Filemaker Pro
-
- FileMaker Pro 2.1 works; I don't know about 3.0. We don't have a copy
- of 3.0.
-
- * Banking: Quicken
-
- My understanding is that Quicken 4 & 5 work...some of our customers
- use that under Linux to balance their checkbooks. A few users have
- complained of crashes in Quicken's nooks and crannies, but we haven't
- been able to reproduce them. Quicken 6 is working "in the lab",
- except that some icons don't show up because we have not yet written
- `PlotIconID'. That's a high priority though. I expect Quicken 6 to
- work in the next full Executor release, although we haven't tested it
- much over here so it's still possible it will try to use some
- difficult-to-add feature.
-
- * Small business accounting: QuickBooks
-
- I haven't heard of it.
-
- * Scheduler: \ I use Expresso/Stardate by Berkeley Systems to
- * Name/address book: \ do these, but I don't know if a Mac version is
- * To-Do list: / available. If one is, and it works, great. If
- * Contact manager: / not, I can probably use a database for the other
- stuff, but I will still need a calendar program.
-
- I don't know (other ARDI folks might).
-
- * Desktop publishing: PageMaker
-
- My understanding is that PageMaker 4.2 works pretty well.
-
- I'd guess you probably don't have copies of many of these programs yet
- (you wouldn't want to buy them if they won't work under Executor).
- However, if you *do* have copies of any of them, feel free to give
- them a try under the free Executor demo.
-
- -Mat
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