Re: What is GNOME office?

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:

> * Joe Shaw (joe helixcode com) wrote at 15:41 on 17/11/00:
> > > As a gnucash hacker and Gnumatic employee, I've been wondering where
> > > the Gnome Office folks see gnucash fitting in to this picture.  Is
> > > there a desire for a finance-type program in the office suite?  Is
> > > gnucash the only candidate?
> > 
> > I personally would love to see gnucash in the office release, especially
> > if it is bonoboized; I can see a lot of interoperability between gnucash
> > and gnumeric. I used gnucash a while back (I haven't checked up on it
> > recently) and it's a really slick piece of software.
> 
> GnuCash is an excellent piece of software and should deffinately be in the
> GNOME Office release.
> 

Me too. An accounting program should definately be part of an office
suite. The only reason they're not is because of
Historical/marketing/legal reasons. We don't have any of that baggage.

There are lots of uses for embedding a financial statement in a WP
document and embedding a WP document in a financial statement.

This is our chance to think outside the box :-)

Cheers

Martin