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>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> * Word processing:  Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word 5.1 works really well, except there are some problems
with the thesaurus.  We're working on it.  Word 6 doesn't work at all.

* Spreadsheet:  Microsoft Excel.

Excel 4 works well.  Excel 5 doesn't work at all.

* Database:  Filemaker Pro

FileMaker Pro 2.1 works; I don't know about 3.0.  We don't have a copy
of 3.0.

* Banking:  Quicken

My understanding is that Quicken 4 & 5 work...some of our customers
use that under Linux to balance their checkbooks.  A few users have
complained of crashes in Quicken's nooks and crannies, but we haven't
been able to reproduce them.  Quicken 6 is working "in the lab",
except that some icons don't show up because we have not yet written
`PlotIconID'.  That's a high priority though.  I expect Quicken 6 to
work in the next full Executor release, although we haven't tested it
much over here so it's still possible it will try to use some
difficult-to-add feature.

* Small business accounting:  QuickBooks

I haven't heard of it.

* Scheduler:         \   I use Expresso/Stardate by Berkeley Systems to
* Name/address book:  \  do these, but I don't know if a Mac version is
* To-Do list:         /  available.  If one is, and it works, great.  If
* Contact manager:   /   not, I can probably use a database for the other
                         stuff, but I will still need a calendar program.

I don't know (other ARDI folks might).

* Desktop publishing:  PageMaker

My understanding is that PageMaker 4.2 works pretty well.

I'd guess you probably don't have copies of many of these programs yet
(you wouldn't want to buy them if they won't work under Executor).
However, if you *do* have copies of any of them, feel free to give
them a try under the free Executor demo.

-Mat


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