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

[Andrew Baudouin]

OpenOffice is written in Java, which is a Just-In-Time language.  Office is
natively compiled.


On 5/16/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>
> No, I think that question was pretty good. While I think that the F/OSS
> model works well, I don't think it's automatic that F/OSS software
> (e.g., OpenOffice) is *just* better.
>
> I don't get what you mean by "JIT language office system". Are you
> referring to Microsoft Office or OpenOffice?
>
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> Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> > I'd imagine because it's FOSS.
> >
> > A better question would be:
> >
> > How can an a JIT language office system run on less hardware than a
> > natively compiled one?  On a Celeron 533 system, I find OO.o to be a few
> > orders of magnitude slower than Office 2K.
> >
> > On a Core 2 3.0Ghz machine, I feel that it's much slower on Win32 in
> > comparison to Office 2003 in terms of loading times, but the machine is
> > fast enough as to not be able to tell a difference during usage.
> >
> > I don't use either very heavily, though.
> >
> >
> > On 5/16/07, *Dustin Puryear* <dustin at puryear-it.com
> > <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Why do you feel that OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Office?
> >
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> >     willhill wrote:
> >     > Open Office is better than Office but both are quirky and I would
> >     not use
> >     > either for a big job.  For quick one or two page papers with
> >     graphics, Open
> >     > Office does the job on GNU/Linux with less hardware than a
> comparable
> >     > Microsoft system.  I miss Word Perfect, which was easier and more
> >     reliable
> >     > than either.  My preference is for KWord, which is also quirky but
> >     very light
> >     > and easy to use.  The quirks I've run into are related to SVG and
> >     KFormula
> >     > and might have some teething issues with ODF.  For my thesis, I'm
> >     using
> >     > Kile/Latex and it's saving me all sorts of formating
> >     headaches.  For business
> >     > use, Open Office is more than adequate.
> >     >
> >     > The problem is that Microsoft has introduced yet another format
> >     that no one
> >     > else can read.  The new Office uses this format as it's default
> >     and they have
> >     > made it difficult to find the "save as" button or to see what kind
> of
> >     > document you have saved.  People who don't have someone managing
> >     these
> >     > settings for them are going to have problems right away.  Users of
> >     older
> >     > versions of Office and Open Office are going to have problems if
> >     the new
> >     > Office takes off.
> >     >
> >     > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:48 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> >     >> I'm curious what you guys think about OpenOffice vs. Office and
> >     even vs.
> >     >> Google Office.
> >     >>
> >     >> http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/
> >     <http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/>
> >     >
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