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On Mon, 2002年12月16日 at 21:03, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > On Mon, 2002年12月16日 at 07:48, Tobias DiPasquale wrote: > > On Sun, 2002年12月15日 at 21:23, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > > > > > C'mon, isn't there some windows program that you would rather not do > > > without on a regular basis, but have gotten to the point where you can > > > do most of your work in Linux? Win4Lin and VMWare are a nice way to > > > spend your day in Linux while using that one vertical market windows app > > > that you really need to use. > > > > Which would be??? What is it that you need to use every day that you > > can't find a suitable replacement that is native Linux? Let me know and > > we'll see if we can find something for you. > > Time Matters legal case management software. It's like a super > PIM/Document Management System/MailMerge/Billing System/MUA (I don't use > this component) and probably more (http://www.timematters.com/). Under > pressure from some active Linux supporting customers, and a joint > venture with Toshiba to market a server appliance, there is now a Linux > server, i.e. the back end can run on RedHat 7.2 with Postgres or mySQL, > but the clients are still all windows based. > Have you attempted running this under wine? How many other lawyers would be interested to pay for this functionality under wine? Perhaps you can form a coalition and fund the development? > As my practice has moved from civil litigation to criminal trials, I > have found that I could do with less desktop power and more > portability. I duplicated the stuff I need the most on my Palm Pilot. > The Palm already handles the contacts, the calendaring, and the > deadlines, and I have created a pretty respectable case management > database for everything else I need (including billing) using a > commercial PalmOS RDBMS formerly called thinkDB. Though thinkDB was > just sold by its developer, ThinkingBytes to Dataviz (ThinkingBytes > wanted to go totally MS.NET/PocketPC) and renamed "Smart Lists to Go", > the Desktop component and synching conduits are still limited to > Windows, meaning that, if I want to print, report on, or manipulate my > data, I need windows. I have an ongoing quest to find a Palm based DBMS > that will sync with a Linux based desktop, and so far, have failed. > Evolution is a pretty good calendaring and contact management - especially if you centralize with an LDAP. I think 1.2 has palm syncing capability - but I don't have a palm - so I haven't tried? > The other Windows program that I find indispensable is QuickBooks. > GNUCash may or may not be a replacement for Quicken, but even Quicken is > not a replacement for QuickBooks. > I seem to recall crossover supporting Quickbooks now. But you can find out for yourself at www.codeweavers.org. > There is no Acrobat for Linux, just a reader and basic, featureless > creator. No support for forms creation (or form data saving even), > annotations, digital signatures, navigations, etc. > OpenOffice.org supports printing directly to pdf. Also, I find that printing to Postscript (ps) then running ps2pdf acceptable. I've even heard of people writing cron scripts that automatically convert any ps files in a particular directory to PDF- so you would basically print the file to a standard location and it would be converted in a matter of minutes. > Other than that, my QuattroPro spreadsheet templates (fine tuned for 10 > years) run fine in Corel's Linux version, and some day, I will be able > to translate my automated Word templates into either StarBasic > (documented only in German for now) or in the new (and exciting > OpenOffice Framework. > Yeah - I don't think OpenOffice.org handles Quatro pro - but if you have something that works already.... > I will be very grateful if you could fill any of these needs with an > Open Source, Linux replacement (or improvement) How grateful? -- W. Chris Shank <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com> ACE Technology Group _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug