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Summary of Sydney Linux User's Group meeting held 29th Nov at UTS.

After our usual question and answer session, Grahame demonstrated
the Applixware software suite.

We had hoped to have a copy available for raffle (every user group is allowed
one complimetary copy), but our promised copy hasn't arrived as yet.

The slides Grahame had made up were impressive, particularly as Grahame
confessed to having only played with the system for a few hours.

Grahame was able to give insightful comparisons with similiar Windows
applications (spreadsheets, presentation packages, word processors, mail
and small database systems).

Grahame was particularly interested in the import features from 'real time
feeds' -  such as stock reports, data acquisition equipment etc.

All in all, I think it was best summarised by one member who asked:

'So if I sat a Word user in front of this package could they be up a running?'

The answer was a definite yes. Although the layout is different, it is not
illogical, cryptic or hard to use.

All in all, it was very interesting to see an 'Office Pack' running on
Linux. Thanks to Grahame for the effort he put in.

There won't be a December meeting at UTS, as usual, due to room constriants.

Regards,
Jamie (not looking forward to the resultant spam)

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