Jacqueline McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> "OpenOffice.org is working to iron out several performance bottlenecks > following complaints that the application takes relatively long to start > up, especially on Linux systems." > > [...] > > "Meeks did not provide dates on when the features would become available > because the project has a philosophy of releasing features as they are > ready rather than by a pre-set schedule." Surely the newsworthy facts from that article are not about the startup times on Linux, but what he says about calc: "Meeks cited one example where a company decided to move a large Excel spreadsheet to OpenOffice. The file would perform its calculations in Excel in 30 seconds, but it took three hours in Calc. The project got that down to about one hour, but Meeks said that there is still much work that needs to be done." I think that this qualifies as a quite remarkable understatement. If the best efforts of the best minds of the project can only improve our performance until it is 120 times slower than Excel, instead of 360 times as slow, there is a problem that no amount of marketing will solve. Note that this is entirely independent of the issue about spreadhseet loading time that raised such a firestorm in the autumn. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
