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[News] OpenOffice-Microsoft Office Benchmark Exposes Shameless Microsoft FUD

  • Subject: [News] OpenOffice-Microsoft Office Benchmark Exposes Shameless Microsoft FUD
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:04:35 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Does OpenOffice have an unfair notoriety as a performance hog?

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| Therefore, do not fall for the statement that OpenOffice.org is more bloated. 
| Those statements either stem from ignorance or are FUD. Both are dangerous. 
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http://freewebsoftwarereviews.blogspot.com/2008/01/final.html

Watch the benchmarks.

Can OpenOffice.org do the job?

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| To continue my look at how non-profits and the free software community can 
| engage, I’ve decided to look at some popular free software products and see 
| how well they fit the need of an average charity—namely my employer.  
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/can_openoffice_do_the_job


Related:

[2006:] 100,000,000 OpenOffice.org fans can't be wrong

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| Simon's official response explained the business rationale behind
| offering support for OpenOffice.org: "OpenOffice.org has becomep
| henomenally successful, Sun alone has shipped more than 70 million
| copies of OpenOffice.org 2.0," he said. "Out there, there
| are maybe 100 million copies of OpenOffice.org. It would be
| senseless to ignore that opportunity."
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2006/11/100000000_openo.html


Tyler Tech: Open-source a software alternative

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| OpenOffice.org is, as the name would suggest, a full open-source suite of 
| office programs. Every program a student ever needs is in here, from a 
| writing program to a presentation creator similar to PowerPoint. The suite 
| was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and was aimed solely at 
| providing a free alternative to Microsoft Office. It is compatible with and 
| can save files as any Microsoft Office format.     
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http://media.www.thetowerlight.com/media/storage/paper957/news/2007/10/22/Life/Tyler.Tech.OpenSource.A.Software.Alternative-3045983.shtml


Office software shootout: OpenOffice.org Writer vs. Micosoft Word, round three

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| As in the previous two comparisons, Writer emerged as the winner in the 
| majority of categories. However, in many categories, the decision is not as 
| obvious as in previous comparisons. For the first time in several releases, 
| Word's designers seem to be making significant changes. These changes are not 
| always successful -- in fact, the reordering of menus into ribbons might be 
| seen by the cynical as an attempt to hide some long-term embarrassments, such 
| as the ongoing problems with master documents. But at least the effort is  
| being made. Writer, by contrast, seems to be standing still, and some of its 
| problems -- notably, cross-references -- are almost as long-neglected as some 
| of Word's.        
| 
| As free software, Writer has advantages that Word is unlikely to match -- its 
| philosophy, its price, its easy availability, and its frequent updates. 
| However, speaking only in terms of functionality, Writer seems to be coasting 
| a little on its reputation. If that continues, its superiority may be eroded, 
| or dissolved altogether.    
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118986


Vietnam Switches to OpenOffice.org!

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| More than 20,000 computers from Party offices nationwide will switch to using 
| OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office from early 2008. 
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http://saigontimes.com.vn/daily/BRIEFs.asp?loai=1&Sobao=3022&Ten=briefly%20today


Thailand: Egat turns to open source to cut costs

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| There are 7,000 PC units based on Open Office or 70 per cent of all 12,000 PC 
| units in the organisation. 
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http://nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/28/technology/technology_30046747.php


Dell Offers Ubuntu, What About OpenOffice?

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| According to the IdeaStorm website, pre-installed OpenOffice is 
| "Under Consideration," which appears to be just below "Coming 
| Soon" in their hierarchy of possible implementation. Let's
| hope it moves to "Already Offered" soon!
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http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/552


Open Office vs. Microsoft Office

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| This has been just a short overview comparing Open Office to Microsoft
| Office to demonstrate that you don't have to pay a lot of money to get
| a great Office Suite.  In fact, you may not have to spend any money to
| get a great Office Suite.
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http://www.ubuntunoob.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1


Microsoft Office or OpenOffice?

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| Let's turn to Microsoft Office. Again, it brings in a ton of 
| revenue to Redmond, even though there are full office productivity 
| suites that compete with it. My guess is that many of you can't 
| name one though -- and that is what Microsoft counts on, which is 
| branding power. The full-featured OpenOffice productivity suite 
| is pretty darn impressive (I've used it), and it's completely 
| free and interoperable with Microsoft Office (not sure about 
| Office 2007). Why don't more people use it then? Lack of knowing 
| it exists is a possibility, and having to download the suite or 
| order it for about $10 on CD may be obstacles. Plus, you can't 
| find it on Best Buy shelves. If customers start becoming smarter 
| and find out out about OpenOffice or even Google Inc.'s Google
| Apps, could a large piece of Microsoft's kingdom come 
| crashing down?
| 
| 
| [Disclosure: I own MSFT shares as of 5-29-07]
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http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/05/29/microsoft-office-or-openoffice/


NeoOffice: It's Ready for Primetime

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| Four weeks ago I decided to try using Neo Office, the Open Source 
| word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing program. Neo 
| Office is based on Open Office which was created by Sun Microsystems,
| and then released out into the wild as an Open Source project. It 
| was developed to work on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
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http://www.surfbits.com/?p=1160


Chinese software company to tailor OpenOffice

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| RedFlag produces a Chinese variation of OpenOffice.org called
| RedOffice. The company is a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Science.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9722855-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog


IBM Adds Lotus Notes Code To OpenOffice Project

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| The stakes are high as an increasing number of government and enterprise 
| software buyers are insisting that the applications they purchase conform to 
| internationally recognized standards.  
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805296&cid=nl_IWK_daily


IBM to give OpenOffice the Outlook e-mail killer it needs?

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| Has the Outlook killer for OpenOffice finally arrived?
| 
| OpenOffice is the most promising open source alternative to Microsoft Office 
| that runs on most Linux distributions, Windows, Macintosh and BSD but to date 
| it has lacked an integrated e-mail service such as the Outlook client that is 
| integrated in Microsoft Office.    
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1401


Why OpenOffice Needs IBM

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| Contributing to an open source Outlook effort would help IBM, OpenOffice, and 
| all of us in search of a great PIM-Email-Address Book solution. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenfield/?p=113


Touch of button opens up IBM open source technologies

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| The syndication tool allows users to access a wide range of open source 
| technologies across a variety of topics including Web 2.0 technologies, game 
| development and Web innovation through a web site called IBM developerWorks.  
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http://media-newswire.com/release_1053946.html


Open Office provides no-cost word processing

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| OpenOffice offers many of the same applications as Microsoft Office, 
| including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program and database, 
| rivaling Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. It also includes a drawing 
| program and an equations program.   
| 
| The software looks and feels like Microsoft Office, and it can read and 
| display most files created in other programs. According to one reviewer, it  
| also does just fine saving documents that can be read by the proprietary 
| programs.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| And the beauty of open-source is that you can help make the product better. 
| Although the software is based on code acquired by Sun Microsystems, the 
| project invites users to offer ideas, identify bugs and, if they're 
| technically proficient, offer fixes.    
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http://www.theolympian.com/business/story/309159.html


Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice

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| Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not 
| including distributions through vendors such as Google, Herring said.  
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60767.html


Migrating a city government to OpenOffice

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| Dave Richards is an IT administrator for a city government. The city has been 
| using OpenOffice.org for about six years. Dave's a Linux guru, and helps run 
| an elegant, efficient Linux network with a nice big server and lots of fairly 
| old dumb terminals running OpenOffice.org at a very acceptable speed.   
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http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1264406,00.html

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