Personally, I'd like to see Corel port some of their products over to Linux. They do offer AfterShot Pro, though that's just a slightly modified Bibble.
Personally, I'd like to see Corel port some of their products over to Linux. They do offer AfterShot Pro, though that's just a slightly modified Bibble.
I think Gimp is closer to photoshop than Calc is to Excel.
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I'm not a CS user, but it seems to me this is a rather arbitrary and disparate collection of tools, and I'm hard pressed to think of many job descriptions that would require more than 2 or 3 of these. Someone with heavy CS experience can correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it just looks like Adobe's way of bundling all their flagship products under one SKU.
What's the tangible advantage in creating a "suite" vs. just letting projects improve individually and letting users select "best of breed"?
With commercial products the biggest motivation is for the publisher, able to get a few hundred extra bucks by selling the whole collection to someone who probably only needs two or maybe three of the packages, but can justify the suite thinking they may need the others some day.
With OSS alternatives we have most of what we need now, with the exception of a WYSIWYG HTML editor, since AFAIK there is none in the Ubuntu Software Center for 12.10.
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The advantage to a suite is in once you learn to use one, its easy to learn the others. Same style interface, goals, design, etc. Also they are well integrated. Suites definitely have an advantage over individual apps.
At work, when I say we need a certain piece of software, the first question is, "Is there an office product for it?" and there often is. Visio, Project, Mappoint, etc. Integration is key for applications.
I used outlook w/ business contact manager at work. It lets me create projects from templates and assign out work tasks and jobs to difference employees, set meetings, customizable fields, and integrates seamlessly with outlook. MS Project is way better, but contact manager is the free mini version.
Without integration into outlook the program would be useless. There are much better programs out there, but the integration is so much more important than the features.
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