OpenOffice.org

[richie]

Has anybody tried this free office software. I have heard some good things about it and am interested to use it to replace MS-Office. I will probably download it to my old pc to test it sometime if anybody is interested in my opinion about it.

 

[Mike Werner]

Yes, it's very good, but a tad slow. But it reads & writes MS OFfice documents, AND you can write Adobe PDF documents....

anything to fight Micro$oft !!

 

[richie]

Hi Mike,

A bit slow on what OS and what machine.

Cheers Richie

 

[Mike Werner]

Running on an XP with 2.2 g processor and 512 M RAM. It's the loading that's the slowest, unless you use their preloader (that takes up RAM).

 

[Rabbitson]

Have you tried StarOffice from Sun? It used to be free, looking at the Sun site now, they seem to charging about 80 Euros for it

It's not quite as good as MS Office, but it's not far off. We used to use it when I worked at Sun (surprise surprise!) the good thing about it I seem to remember was that you could easy open most existing office file types with minimal formatting.

Take a look and see what you think. As I say, it's not as good as MSOffice (but what is), but for the most part it's pretty good (powerpoint alternative is a bit limited, or used to be)

HTH

David

 

[Mike Werner]

Have you tried StarOffice from Sun? It used to be free, looking at the Sun site now, they seem to charging about 80 Euros for it

It's not quite as good as MS Office, but it's not far off. We used to use it when I worked at Sun (surprise surprise!) the good thing about it I seem to remember was that you could easy open most existing office file types with minimal formatting.

Take a look and see what you think. As I say, it's not as good as MSOffice (but what is), but for the most part it's pretty good (powerpoint alternative is a bit limited, or used to be)

HTH

David

OpenOffice is the StarOffice rebirth.... Sun gave StarOffice code into the public domain, and it became OpenOffice.

 

[Rabbitson]

Ah, I'll get my coat . . . . . . . .

 

[Cheesy Mike]

OpenOffice - bloody marvelous
StarOffice - bloody marvelous

I use StarOffice 7.0pp1 on Linux and on the kids PC running Windows XP. Runs brilliant.

Open Office is the freeware version of StarOffice. Same code base, different implementation in that StarOffice includes some graphics filters and a spell checker that Open Office doesn't have. However, you can get spell checkers for Open Office - that's the beauty of freeware.

Mike
(Sun employee, so very very biased)

 

[judge]

OpenOffice - bloody marvelous
StarOffice - bloody marvelous

I use StarOffice 7.0pp1 on Linux and on the kids PC running Windows XP. Runs brilliant.

Open Office is the freeware version of StarOffice. Same code base, different implementation in that StarOffice includes some graphics filters and a spell checker that Open Office doesn't have. However, you can get spell checkers for Open Office - that's the beauty of freeware.

Mike
(Sun employee, so very very biased)

I've just sent this to your boss - Windaz & Linux.... tut, tut, tut breach of contract You are required to run Solaris and solaris alone