2007/10/5, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dave Craven wrote: > > -----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. > > > > One thing Borland found out was that MS apps used hidden API, whereas > the public API that Borland and others had to use delivered poorer > performance. This meant that anyone competing with MS couldn't obtain > the same level of performance. I wouldn't be surprised if MS wasn't > still doing something similar. > > One thing that's obvious from this sort of thing, is that MS *KNOW* they > can't compete on product quality, so they have to cheat in as many ways > as possible. Just review the recent OOXML - ISO nonsense for more > evidence of this. > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org>
It strikes me that the most adequate response to Mr Ou's article would be to measure the CPU time and the memory requirements of OOo run in a more neutral environment that that provided by Windows Vista. Surely this should not be beyond the capacity of some of our more technically enhanced list members ? The important thing would be to post the results no matter what they show, something, alas, not all researches do.... Henri
