OpenOffice.org: Serious Suite Alternative
http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=26349,00.asp Microsoft Office virtually owns the productivity suite market and runs upward of $479 per copy—a price-to-ubiquity ratio that Microsoft Corp. has been able to maintain through constant feature refinement and careful guarding of its de facto standard office file formats. Enter OpenOffice.org 1.0, which became available for download last week. OpenOffice.org--or OOo, as it has become known--is a freely available, open-source office productivity suite that delivers enough functionality and Office file format compatibility to make it a compelling replacement for the Microsoft suite and a good option for Linux and Solaris users. -- -------------------------------------- Malcolm Herbert Red Hat Europe t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845 --------------------------------------
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Enter OpenOffice.org 1.0, which became available for download last week. OpenOffice.org--or OOo, as it has become known--is a freely available, open-source office productivity suite that delivers enough functionality and Office file format compatibility to make it a compelling replacement for the Microsoft suite and a good option for Linux and Solaris users.
...And if you're interested in that, you're sure to be interested in the goings on at www.theopencd.org --jaa __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 May 2002 5:39 pm, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
open-source office productivity suite that delivers enough functionality and Office file format compatibility to make it a compelling replacement for the Microsoft suite and a good option for Linux and Solaris users.
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware. Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM. - -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE82SXjF8Iu1zN5WiwRAjtxAJ91AQdOSDz6ddxfblgazOnpMjDYDQCgpbVM yo3xd/51lgVi0WFoLQZKQNM= =N/Zw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
good point, its as bloaty as M$, but the second time you load it (on my P75 16Mb terminal) it loads really quickly ( < 10s ), the server has 1Gb memory though Malcolm On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 14:19, Chris Howells wrote:
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On Tuesday 07 May 2002 5:39 pm, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
open-source office productivity suite that delivers enough functionality and Office file format compatibility to make it a compelling replacement for the Microsoft suite and a good option for Linux and Solaris users.
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware.
Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM.
- -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org
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On 8 May 2002, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware. Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM. good point, its as bloaty as M$, but the second time you load it (on my P75 16Mb terminal) it loads really quickly ( < 10s ), the server has 1Gb memory though
What processor speed on the server? We found on an otherwise unloaded system that second-time load speeds were around 3s with StarOffice 5.2 (1GHz Intel, 1GB RAM) and are down to 1-2s a few months later with OpenOffice (1.7GHz Intel, 1.5GB RAM). If you preload OpenOffice during user logon (asynchronously, so that it doesn't slow down the desktop appearing) then you should be able to get perceived zero load times. This is the same trick that MS Office uses under Windows. No, don't ask me how to do it - it's on the ToDo list. I know it's possible but I don't know the details. Michael
i'm going to time it more accurately on the Toshiba server i've got (1MHz PIII) to see what happens, it is probably quicker. Mozilla is also the other _killer_ app, and take a while. Malc On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 18:58, Michael Brown wrote:
On 8 May 2002, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware. Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM. good point, its as bloaty as M$, but the second time you load it (on my P75 16Mb terminal) it loads really quickly ( < 10s ), the server has 1Gb memory though
What processor speed on the server? We found on an otherwise unloaded system that second-time load speeds were around 3s with StarOffice 5.2 (1GHz Intel, 1GB RAM) and are down to 1-2s a few months later with OpenOffice (1.7GHz Intel, 1.5GB RAM).
If you preload OpenOffice during user logon (asynchronously, so that it doesn't slow down the desktop appearing) then you should be able to get perceived zero load times. This is the same trick that MS Office uses under Windows.
No, don't ask me how to do it - it's on the ToDo list. I know it's possible but I don't know the details.
Michael
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:58:40PM +0100, Michael wrote:
On 8 May 2002, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware. Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM. good point, its as bloaty as M$, but the second time you load it (on my P75 16Mb terminal) it loads really quickly ( < 10s ), the server has 1Gb memory though
What processor speed on the server? We found on an otherwise unloaded system that second-time load speeds were around 3s with StarOffice 5.2 (1GHz Intel, 1GB RAM) and are down to 1-2s a few months later with OpenOffice (1.7GHz Intel, 1.5GB RAM).
If you preload OpenOffice during user logon (asynchronously, so that it doesn't slow down the desktop appearing) then you should be able to get perceived zero load times. This is the same trick that MS Office uses under Windows.
No, don't ask me how to do it - it's on the ToDo list. I know it's possible but I don't know the details.
Couldn't you just 'nice' it in .xinitrc? -- Frank *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Boroughbridge. Tel: 01423 323019 --------- PGP keyID: 0xC0B341A3 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/ VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
On Wednesday 08 May 2002 14:19, Chris Howells wrote:
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 5:39 pm, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
open-source office productivity suite that delivers enough functionality and Office file format compatibility to make it a compelling replacement for the Microsoft suite and a good option for Linux and Solaris users.
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware.
Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM.
Don't worry about it. All you have to say is "but its industry standard" ;-) If people were that worried about performance they wouldn't have used PCs in the first place. Regards, -- IanL
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