KIMBLEP%UTSIV1.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (12/01/89)
We currently run All-in-One on our VMS system. Does there exist Unix software which has anything like decent office facilities? If you have had first hand experience with one, we would much appreciate any experiences yoy could share. A little background for the "Unix has it all" crowd: it is precisely the fact that Unix has so many facilities and so many ways of using them that is intimidating to people like our All-in-one users; they are typically neither computer literate nor interested in becoming so. Yet they need convenient Email, word processing, printing, filing, scheduling, etc. Office systems provide proven ways to accomodate (I need a speller) such individuals with minimum training and little additional job stress. We are happy with All-in-one in so far as it meets the criteria expressed in the previous paragraph. However it is much too slow, it does not use the native file naming nor directory structure in a natural way, it requires entirely too much specialized knowledge and training for systems programming, it is too expensive and we can't make it available on Unix or Ultrix machines. In short it makes our office workers happy and our systems programmers mad. As one of the latter I can't see why a Unix or VMS system couldn't provide a solution which is portable and equally attractive to both groups. But has anyone ACTUALLY done this? As usual, will summarize to the net if sufficient interest. Ken Kimble _._ ._. _._ UTSI Tullahoma, TN 37388