[TriLUG] StarOffice at Best Buy

[Robert Floyd]

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 00:03, Thunder Bear wrote:

> 
> What is Adabas?

Adabas D is a DBMS from Software AG. It appears to be fairly robust
(supporting stored procedures and the like) and was a reasonably popular
mainframe DBMS about 10 years ago, but is still in use today. You can
read more about it at http://www.softwareag.com/adabasd

> 
> Have you played at all with macros in the word processor?  Does it
> *have* a macro language?  The office I'm at now is standardized on Word
> Perfect, which is a nice suite, but they have dropped Linux support. 
> The vast majority of users are Windows users but there is a push to move
> many to Linux.  However there are a lot of Word Perfect macros being
> used and I'm just wondering how portable they might be to Star Office. 

While StarOffice/OpenOffice has a macro language, it is not compatible
with either VBA or WordPerfect macro languages. Macros written in either
language will be kept when opened in SO/OO, which means such documents
can be edited by SO/OO without affecting the macros when the document is
reopened in its original application. In general, macros don't translate
well across applications.

Out of curiosity, what kind of macros does your office use? I don't
believe we make use of macros at all with Word.


Robert Floyd
Durham, NC