Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 03, 2004 05:49 AM
If Evermore want to take paying users away from Microsoft Office and StarOffice, it's got to be able to import and export all common formats perfectly (it doesn't do this and can it read and write StarOffice/OpenOffice documents?! I bet it doesn't...).
It must also use anti-aliased fonts (users won't accept "chunky" onscreen fonts any more - and EIOffice doesn't use such fonts) and not have any "data loss" failures/crashes (it does - it drops characters if you type too fast, which is a disaster for a commercial product !). It needs to be available on at least the 3 main platforms (no Mac OS X version, so strike that too).
Add in the fact it doesn't install and run properly on most Linux distros and this looks a complete dead duck even compared to OpenOffice! Yet if you read this article, the author seems to have brushed away these serious issues - I think think they're important enough to give this first EIOffice release a major thumbs down. Maybe it'll improve, but with no demo version to try, I'm not paying anything until they sort it out!
BTW, I didn't see a URL for the package in the review - it can be bought from <A HREF="http://www.evermoresw.com/" title="evermoresw.com">www.evermoresw.com</a evermoresw.com>
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So, to summarise, it costs money and it has flaws
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 03, 2004 05:49 AMIt must also use anti-aliased fonts (users won't accept "chunky" onscreen fonts any more - and EIOffice doesn't use such fonts) and not have any "data loss" failures/crashes (it does - it drops characters if you type too fast, which is a disaster for a commercial product !). It needs to be available on at least the 3 main platforms (no Mac OS X version, so strike that too).
Add in the fact it doesn't install and run properly on most Linux distros and this looks a complete dead duck even compared to OpenOffice! Yet if you read this article, the author seems to have brushed away these serious issues - I think think they're important enough to give this first EIOffice release a major thumbs down. Maybe it'll improve, but with no demo version to try, I'm not paying anything until they sort it out!
BTW, I didn't see a URL for the package in the review - it can be bought from <A HREF="http://www.evermoresw.com/" title="evermoresw.com">www.evermoresw.com</a evermoresw.com>
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