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

[Dustin Puryear]

Well, I didn't want to say it, but I'm glad you did. :)

Java + GUI = slow

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Shannon Roddy wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>> I thought so. You can almost always tell when a GUI is written in Java.
> 
> 'Cause it usually "sucks real bad" and is slow as molasses.  Some of
> the Solaris management tools are awful...
> 
> 
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>> -ray wrote:
>>> It is.  You may find some java in there, but I'd say most of it is C++.
>>>
>>> http://about.openoffice.org/index.html#description
>>>
>>> ray
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
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