K. Shantanu wrote:
Hi,
Don't want to start a flame or software war, but how does Ooffice compete
against
M$-Office? I am a free software fan myself and never had any M$ products on my
home machine
for last 3 years. I am just curious to know about the ease of use and features
available in
OpenOffice against M$-Office. Something concrete rather than an emotional outbrust.
I have a batch of people wanting to shift to OOffice or Star Office but are
reluctant and me being a CLI guy cannot help (motivate) them much.
Any help?
Shantanu
I can't give you hard numbers or specific points, what I can do is give
you my impression as a user. I write fiction and "How To" non-fiction
and the occasional tech manual. For that, I vastly prefer OOo Writer. (I
use the latest pre 2.0 release typically.) I find it easier to use for
the specific features that I need and use. (I don't have problem with
envelopes.) I use a spread sheet for basic "What if" functions, and for
invoicing. (not a power user by any means.) and I find OOo Calc plenty
fine for my uses. For Presentations, I prefer PowerPoint, but, I would
rather (out of loyalty, and in hopes that it will help the developers.)
use Impress. (I actually have a vote on a bug, and plan to start helping
with that.)
I have yet to find a web devel package I like for Windows, (I just don't
like or understand nvu.) so I use Quanta in Linux when I am not using
FrontPukage, I mean FrontPage.
Just FYI, I also use both Thunderbird and Firefox under both windows and
Linux and the servers that I manage for my company are all RedHat or
centOS servers, running Apache, djbdns, qmail, mysql and such.
I hope that helps. It's not scientific, but it is an informed user's view.
Paul Graham
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