petitp@cui.UUCP (PETITPIERRE Dominique) (03/06/86)
I have some documentation on a software package called Q-Office, developped
by Quadratron Systems Inc. Among other things it includes a word processor
called Q-One. It's said to run on any kind of UNIX from 4.2BSD to XENIX via
Coherent and also on MS-DOS and CP/M-86, with practically any hardware!
The number of features is amazing and seems to beat Word, Samna and the like.
It also includes a spelling corrector with dictionnaries in many languages.
I know it is proposed by Sperry on their line of UNIX computers, and on the
WhiteChapelWorks MG1 workstation.
The price vary with the number of users on the machine: from US$ 495 mono-user
to US$ 14000 to a mainframe for Q-One and from US$ 150 to US$ 4400 for each
additional dictionnary.
Quadratron sells only to OEM but here is their addresses anyway in
Switzerland, United Kingdom and USA:
Rosenbergstrasse 32 / CH-9000 St Gallen / Switzerland /Telno: 071 22 11 70
77A Walton Street / London / England SW3 2HT / Telex 267500 LIBORC G
15260 Ventura Boulevard, 18th Floor / Sherman Oaks / Ca 91403 /Telno: 818
789-8588
I am very interested in that product, and would like to hear some
comments/critics from people who use it.
Points of particular interest are:
- Is it "what you see is what you get" (I like xerox!) or is it more like
a formatter (I'am sick of nroff),Can it use "bitmapped characters"?
- Can european languages (thoses that have these letters with funny
accents that no american usual software care about!) be dealt with in a clean
& proper manner (I am specially wondering about the dictionnary!!)
- Can other "exotic" alphabets like greek or cyrillic be used (mixed with
the europeans)?
- Does it take full advantage of a laser printer (HP LaserJet in my
case).
To cut a long story short: Is it worth it??
Thanks in advance for your help, I'll post a summary to net.text if answers
are interesting.
Dominique Petitpierre uucp: mcvax!cernvax!cui!petitp
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