Sw2003\4 and Star Office?

Does your company use design tables? If so you may be stuck with Microsoft because of excel and it's OLE capabilities.

Keith

Only for the SW workstations tho. Everyone else can use Star/Open office with no problems.

And really, unless you have some other app that only runs in windos, there's no reason no to put linux on some of the desktops as well. And even some of those apps run just fine with crossover office.

-nick e.

You would only need Excel on the SW workstations. I don't know if would be possible to save any money with that info.

You could then install the windows version of OpenOffice.org to handle all your ordinary office tasks.

Have you thought about using Open Office? It's still free where as Star Office now costs somewhere around $50.

Thanks for all the advice and yes, we will look at Open Office, now that you have mentioned it.

I now have a copy of Suse 9.0 and will be testing it over Xmas, if not too drunk, hic! and if the better half will let me :-| Now that Novell has Suse under their wings, it should be great.

If I recall correctly, Open Office does not (yet) include a database application. I assune that is why the original poster is opting for StarOffice.

Jim S.