Question 1:
KOffice, the rest of KDE and Qt on X-Windows are free. The only costs for a 
company are the same as Linux: external costs (downloading, buying a 
distribution or similar.)

Question 2:
As far as I know, StarOffice's documents cannot be imported into KOffice 
yet. MS Office's documents can but with many limitations and restrictions.

Question 3:
Qt for Win32 exists. However it is commercial and not all programs in KDE 
and KOffice are LGPL. GPL parts cannot be used with a commercial version of 
QT. And as far as I know, nobody has tried to port the LGPL parts to be 
used under WIn32.

In general:
I personnaly think that KOffice is not yet far enough to be used seriously 
by a company. Sorry!


-----Original Message-----
From:	Michael Rye Christensen [SMTP:mrc@mail1.stofanet.dk]
Sent:	Saturday, February 10, 2001 4:38 PM
To:	koffice@kde.org
Subject:	General questions  about KOffice

Hi

I am currently preparing to start up a new company for Linux
applications, but in this process I have found some issues that I don't
know if people have thought about.

1) Would it cost anything for a starting company to use KOffice ?
	Because a starting company normally has limited ressources I
	need to find out how much is needed for IT.

2) Does KOffice support both MS Office and StarOffice documents ?
	I have a lot of documents from these 2 applications and would
	like to know if they are readable, and whether or not the
	office package can write in the format of these Office programs.

3) Is it possible in the future to get KOffice on Windows ?
	I am currently using StarOffice because it can run of both
	platforms but if KOffice in the future will be released for
	Windows it will definetely be something to consider.

Hope to hear from you.

Regards

Michael Rye Christensen