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

[Dustin Puryear]

I thought most of OpenOffice was written in C++?

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Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto: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/>
>     >     <http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/>
>     >     >
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