Dear James, Interesting article, which should help to encourage a more open view of the possibility of using OOo among business users, who tend to be loathe to experiment. As a home user I am not subject in equal degree to the productivity constraints and switch-over costs that occupy such people, while purchase costs perhaps weigh higher in my case. On the grapevine the most common disadvantages attributed to OOo are that the suite is bloated and slow. Stability is, if I have understood the matter aright, generally regarded as good. My question is thus: to the degree that the problems mentioned above are real, what is being done to address them ? How does, for example, 2.0.4 compare with its predecessor in these respects ? Does it require more or less hard disk space or the same ; does operating it require more or less RAM ? How does it compare in this regard with the Microsoft Office suite ? These are the pivotal questions - in addition to the still more basic one of whether tools of this kind should be computer or web-based - which in my opinion are going to determine the fate of OOo. For my part, I do hope OOo succeeds ; we all find ourselves very much in need of an alternative to Redmond's products (and in particular, their marketing practices) !...
Henri
