[brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"?

[Dustin Puryear]

Actually, you can buy it separately. As far as I know, you can buy each
piece of the Microsoft Office Suite as an individual product. Only if
you buy the "Suite" do you get it all. :)

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Joe Fruchey wrote:
> No, I know that Outlook is a full PIM and whatnot. Thankfully, I don't
> use it anymore (got fed up with 20MB mailbox limit at work, so Gmail
> checks it via POP now). And I understand that the functionality it
> offers is important in an office environment. It just seems like the
> odd man out, and that perhaps it should be offered separately. All the
> other PIMs I can think of are separate apps (though both users of ACT!
> are probably still running Windows 95), and most office suites do not
> include a PIM or email client.
> 
> That is all.
> 
> On 5/16/07, Karthik Poobalasubramanian <karthik at poobal.net> wrote:
>> Don't forget the fact that Outlook stores all emails(and other junk) in a
>> single small file. Apparently, this is the most safe and secure way to store
>> your email.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf
>> Of -ray
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:57 PM
>> To: general at brlug.net
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Is OpenOffice just "good enough"?
>>
>>
>> Outlook Express just manages email.  With full Outlook, you get contacts
>> and calendaring (and other junk), which is more fitting in an office
>> suite..  Add the collaboration that you mention, and boom that's what
>> users want.
>>
>> ray
>>
>> On Wed, 16 May 2007, Joe Fruchey wrote:
>>
>>> And does anyone else feel like Outlook is out of place in an office
>>> suite? Every other app is about creating documents or content, and
>>> then this one is for reading and managing email messages. Seems random
>>> to me.
>>>
>>>> MSO will also always kill OOo in the collaboration arena. That's their
>>>> forte, and they do it well. Expensive and proprietary, but well.
>>>>
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