WHAT?!?!?!?

Star Office is as good as MS Office at every task I have ever needed.  What do you do with your MS Office that can not be done in StarOffice.  And Wordperfect has been available for Unix since before MS had a word processor!  Corel Office works great under Linux.  I was using Applixware as a fully intergrated office suite back when everyone else had seperate WordPerfect and Lotus.  So to say that Linux lacks an office suite shows ignorance.

As for accounting software and vector drawing there are applications.  Check out www.thekompany.com.  They make Kapital a personal accounting program and Kivio a vector art program to name two off the top of my head.  I don't think you could run a business with Kapital, but a quick search revealed these financial applications that are designed to run a business though:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kontor/
http://www.starnix.com/banal/
http://www.sql-ledger.com/
http://www.provenacct.com/
http://www.appgen.com/products/accounting_small_business.html

And for some other vector drawing applications check out these:
http://sketch.sourceforge.net/
http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/
http://www.koffice.org/kontour/
http://www.gyve.org/

Couldn't find much for linux legal software packages, but look at this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lawoffice/
http://www.legalcs.com/linux/
http://www.legalfiles.com/techtalk.htm

Is Linux everything, NO!!  Is KDE an execelent choice for the business desktop?  Definately.  It is stable, easy to use and has ALL of the tools that are typically required for business use.

I think Linux is a better choice for business use, because it is cheaper, more stable, more robust, has ALL the tools typically required for business, is easier to maintain, and easier to control/protect the user.

Dusty


> 
> For home use, I believe it is actually preferable to use KDE (2.2 and 
> above) over Windows.  However, the lack of business applications (mainly 
> office suite, accounting software and vector drawing programs) remains 
> the main obstacle preventing Linux from being considered a viable 
> desktop alternative.
> 
> I know quite a few members at LUAU think very highly of 
> StarOffice/OpenOffice; however, at least for law office applications, my 
> own experience is, SO is still quite a  long way from being in the same 
> league as MS Office and WordPerfect.  With regard to accounting 
> software, I heard Gnucash is quite good, but, just like every other 
> Linux project, it is starving from lack of financial support.
> 
> 
> Warren Togami wrote:
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> >http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2813695,00.html
> >
> >ZDNet: KDE 2.2.1 rivals Windows
> >
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So I asked my accountant, do I get an agriculture 
exemption for my server farm?