Hancom Office 2.0 preview

[Warren Togami]

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/0928.hancom.html

Hancom Office will be a promising alternative to StarOffice on both Windows
and Linux deskstops.  Both Hancom and StarOffice will have full Chinese,
Japanese and Korean support along with excellent Microsoft Office file
format compatibilty.

Quotes from this article:

"HancomOffice 2.0, like StarOffice, will be a multiplatform product running
on Linux, Mac OS/X, and Windows. The alpha version of Hancom Office 2.0 I
tested loads in about 3 seconds the first time, and consumes a dainty 5
megabytes of memory.  The toolbar and memory footprints are small enough
that you can leave it running all day without making your machine gasp for
swap every time you do something else. This is goodness."

"StarOffice 5.2 includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool,
drawing tool, database, calendar, and e-mail client. It also offers good
interoperability with Microsoft Office documents. HancomOffice 2.0 will
bring a mix of applications from its previous releases (they are big in the
Korean, Japanese, and Chinese markets) and several from TheKompany.com, the
commercial venture Shawn Gordon began for KDE applications. The component
list includes a word processor, spreadsheet, graphics tool, presentation
tool, database, flowcharting/diagramming tool, HTML editor, and an e-mail
client."

Hancom Office 2.0 pre-release evaluation downloads
http://www.hancom.com/en/