MC wrote:
A break from your server discussion because I stubbed my toe on this one:
Office functionality, and better, and then some, is provided for by OpenOffice.
I'm all for positive thinking. But don't delude yourself -- OpenOffice (and StarOffice
for that matter) is not better than Office 2007. Even the free software community
doesn't agree that OpenOffice is a great thing. The other day I saw a Mark Shuttleworth
quote, "i think AbiWord, and KOffice would be slicker, faster, lighter [than
OpenOffice] if they had more developer time".
I've been using Staroffice now for 5 years. I use to believe it was
equal to MSOffice 2003, there was nothing I couldn't duplicate that was
done in MSOffice that I couldn't do in StarOffice. As a matter of fact,
I could do more with the spreadsheets, Staroffice has more functions.
So now that MS released Office 2007, Staroffice is better now. MS
totally screwed the user interface, you need to learn a completely new
user interface.
I also have no speed problems with Staroffice, I have it running on a
Blade 2500 (Solaris 10), W2100z (Solaris 10) and an HP laptop (Solaris
Express 62), for the laptop, it's not blazing fast, single cored AMD,
ATI Graphics (no 3D) and a 1.8 gig processor speed, and it's very
acceptable to use.
Paul
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