Wow. Detailed. Thanks for the info Brett. :) -- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com
Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ B. Estrade wrote: > Here is what I use, for what, and why: > > I use OpenOffice Write for basic docs because of the export to pdf > feature, but often times it is just as easy to use Google's doc writer > for this. I use Word when I need reliable TOC and formatting and > latex when I need serious control over formatting and layout. > > On the rare occasion I need a spreadsheet, I use Excel, no doubt. > OpenOffice's Calc program is no where near Excel; and Google's > spreadsheet is an absolute joke. > > For drawing diagrams and such, the clear winner for me is OpenOffice's > Draw program. It is simply the best as far as I am concerned. I even > prefer it to programs that are meant specifically for create flow > charts. > > I keep presentations simple, so normally I bounce back and forth > between OpenOffice Impress and Powerpoint. I have been pretty happy > with how well this works, but there is always the issue of fonts. > > I don't do databases, so but I would never use Access for anything, > but I recall their gui tools to be very well done - too bad the itself > DB sucks. If OpenOffice made it simple to create easy-to-distribute > client apps (like Access did/does) that connect to MySQL, SQLite, or > PostgreSQL DBs, then I might find a reason to use it :) > > Overall, the big best things about OpenOffice are the "Draw" program > and its ability to export to PDF natively. Word is still king in my > eyes and Excel has no equal, anywhere. Google is nice for notes and > hammering out a document that I need to send via PDF, but overall its > functionality does not bode well for the future of web based apps. > > So, I guess it sounds like I use a mix of all of them. Choice is > good, and I don't think that there will ever be a clear winner. In > fact, office applications were "good enough" years ago. I doubt there > is a lot of room for any office suite to become the clear cut winner. > I mean, what else could any of these apps add that would make it > "killer"? I can't think of one single thing that would be such an > evolutionary step forward as to render the rest irrelevant - well > maybe if it did the work for me. :) ... so I think office apps are a > finished technology - like cars; they all minimally do what you need > well enough to get out of a bind, we all know how they work, what to > expect, and anything above the basics is not really all that exciting. > > Cheers, > Brett > > On 5/16/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> 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/ >> >> -- >> Puryear Information Technology, LLC >> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >> http://www.puryear-it.com >> >> Author: >> "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >> "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" >> >> Download your free copies: >> http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> > >
