K-Office should go "1.0" as soon as possible. I hope that noone picks up the
idea to start KProject thus delaying the rollout of the rest. There is more
missing - there is time for it later:

- A Quicken clone
- A CAD program
- MS Exchange client
- clients for various financial services like Reuters

just to name a few that came into my mind now.

But hey - There ARE other products. AFAIK a couple of calendar servers offer
such functionality. Check them.

Another point: There is absolutely no reason that everyone uses the same OS.
Since you have HP-UX users already I assume that you have plenty of staff that
can live without MS Project. Leave Windows to the managers. 

-Rudiger

PS:
I can't imagine that anyone will write a program who's user are _exclusively
managers. It's probably up to the managers to do this :)

On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, Allan Johnstone wrote:
> >%_Hi,
> 
> I am very interested in KOffice, both as a Linux user at home, and as a
> UNIX user (HP-UX) at work. There is presently a cost-saving effort at
> work to move to PCs on the desktop (running eXceed or PC X-ware to
> access UNIX). I have argued that moving to Linux would be even more
> cost-effective, but I face arguments about the lack of key business
> software available for Linux. Your KOffice suite seems to remedy many of
> these needs, such as KWord (we use FrameMaker a lot), KSpread, et
> ectera. Only one key type of application seems to be missing: a
> Linux-based counterpart to MS-Project. This is a key piece of software
> for the managers here. Unfortunately, they make the decisions about the
> equipment that we use, and I can't imagine them being interested in an
> OS that didn't have a powerful, or at least equal, competitor to the MS
> product.
> 
> I suppose that this is rather late to decide on such a development,
> although I hope that you will consider this. Nonetheless, I will
> continue to look at the KOffice suite, and I will try to promote it at
> work.
> 
> Thanks a lot for such an interesting sounding product. I am only
> beginning to install it from source (I downloaded it all last night),
> but... In the past I have written Adobe to encourage them to port
> FrameMaker to Linux. I cheered when Corel announced a port of their
> software to Linux. I have always wished that FrameMaker supported
> spreadsheet functions. I am very excited about XML. Result? I am already
> considering testing your software (I spent two years testing our network
> management software), and--if it comes anywhere near my
> expectations--possibly writing a book on it.
> 
> Thanks again - AJJ
> 
> --
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