-----Original Message----- From: Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Some Bad Statistics
On 19:52 Fri 05 Oct , Harold Fuchs wrote: > A little off topic .... > > I unfortunately found this: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=480 > > Be interested in your thoughts. > OO on MS will never be able to compete with MS Office due to the restrictive practices of MS in witholding information about the OS. This information is needed if third party developers are to develop applications that can rival Microsoft's own 'integrated' apps. Open Office has done an amazing job in producing an extremely powerful suite of applications allowing everybody access to word processing, spreadsheets etc. without having to spend a month's wages every year keeping up to date. I run OpenOffice on Debian at home and at work, where I also run MS Office on XP and my, admittedly unscientific, impression is that OO on Linux runs much faster than MS Office on XP. ------------------------------------------ I read through some of the comments and one stood out. It mentioned that maybe M$O-Excel only reads what it needs to display in order to be considered "loaded". How else can one "read" 200mb in 2.5 seconds? That's a faster i/o rate than a typical laptop or desktop is going to have, for sure! Also note that these tests were published in April with OOo 2.2, not 2.3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
