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Re: Quantification
by Alain on Saturday 13/Oct/2001, @00:31

> One from HanCom, one from TheKompany and one from Eric Laffoon.

It's a little different, I think : one from HanCom/TheKompany (inside Hancom Office, I doubt there will be 2 versions...) and one in GPL.

Thank you Eric Laffoon for the GPL version !

What would be the exact names ? Eric Laffoon spoke about "Quanta", and Hancom/TheKompany about "Quanta+" (see http://dot.kde.org/999199700)...

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Re: Quantification
by Shawn Gordon on Saturday 13/Oct/2001, @19:10

theKompany will be selling "Quanta Gold" as a stand alone app. We will also have a rebranded version in HancomOffice known as "HancomWebBuilder". And no offense to Eric, but you should be thanking Alex and Dmitry who actually wrote Quanta+ and had been working on it for a year before Eric got involved. As I understand it Eric provided some financial support, web design for the home page, public advocacy and feature requests.

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Re: Quantification
by John Marttila on Sunday 14/Oct/2001, @06:24

Well, yes that's true. But what I thought of when he thanked Eric for the GPL version was thanks for his efforts to keep a GPL project going. It's no small task. Financial support also helps.

I am interested in thekompany's future efforts and will probably use whichever version is the best for my needs regardless of cost. (Well, regardless, up to a modest level...)

Thanks to Alex, Dimitry, Eric, thekompany, Linus.

This newbie just ditched windows last night! Whooooeeeee! What took me so long? I don't know, but I know little about computers and haven't had any trouble installing Mandrake 7.2, getting my adsl working, downloading and installing apps and having so much fun I've been up for about 24 hours! The stuff about Linux being tough so far seems like a bunch of hogwash. I spent plenty of hours debugging my Windows setup in the past and that was no cakewalk at times.

Thanks to ALL who program for Gnu/Linux!!! Many, MANY, thanks! So far the most fun thing is when an app hangs (Konquerer gets trashed by the most heavily active-x using sites, but so did IE 5.5) it just shuts down gracefully and I restart it. No reboots. Koffice 2 and Konqueror are terrific.

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Re: Quantification
by John Marttila on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @09:35

I meant Koffice 1.something. It seems like version 2 as I had to upgrade from what came with Mandrake 7.2, the apps were so buggy as to be nearly unusable but now (ver 1.1) both Kword and Kspread are working nicely so far. Konqueror (1.9.8 for me) seems to be rendering most websites very well. I have switched between Konq and Netscape and Konq is preffered. I'll download Mozilla and Opera and compare but I can't see leaving Konqueror.

I AM finding out that getting all the right libs and resolving dependencies on various flavors of such libs is more tricky then I first thought. But when I get evrything working on an app they seem to work great. Slower to load sometimes then my memories of windows but they seem quicker once loaded. My system seems to really rock, speedwise, with Linux (I have an AMD k-300 with 128 meg ram)

And best of all, I will never have to sign over my firstborn to Microsoft by using XP.

If you're lurking Shawn G. or if anyone else reads this, are their any recent reviews of Kapital that you know about? I need something to replace Quicken and am going to start that hunt today. At this time I am going to lean toward KDE apps where possible as so far I prefer it over gnome.

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Re: Quantification
by Shawn Gordon on Monday 15/Oct/2001, @18:54

we just put a new version of Kapital up today, we are going to announce it shortly.

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Re: Quantification
by try on Tuesday 16/Oct/2001, @01:03

Hello,
what is the status of the gpl version as there are still some annoying bugs ?
Will it be finished by its authors or have they abandonned it ?
I think there is nothing wrong in you hiring them, but in all fairness we should be informed of the gpl version future. If the developpers are not to go back to finish this version, others will, at least for the remaining bugs.
thanks.

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