[Corpora-List] workstation advice for corpus linguistics work

[Alexander Yeh]

Trevor Jenkins wrote:
...

>
>>   Word
>> Windows
>> Excel
>> Access
>
> Personally I'd spend my money on getting the best hardware than on
> proprietary/expensive software. Continuing the theme of open source source
> the OpenOffice.org package is functionally equivalent to the combination
> of Word, Excel, and Access all for the rock-bottom price of some download
> bandwidth. At least for Word and Excel there is file format compatability
> --- indeed at one time the only compatability between particular versions
> of Microsoft Office was to utilise OpenOffice.org!
>

My experience has been, if you need to interact with people who use 
Word, etc., be careful of using OpenOffice on the other end.
I remember passing paper drafts back and forth with a co-author who used 
OpenOffice (and myself using Word). After several iterations, the paper 
draft became unopenable by Word, and we had to revert to an older 
version. I forgot how we got around the incompatibilities that were 
eventually encountered.


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