I'd imagine because it's FOSS. A better question would be:
How can an a JIT language office system run on less hardware than a natively compiled one? On a Celeron 533 system, I find OO.o to be a few orders of magnitude slower than Office 2K. On a Core 2 3.0Ghz machine, I feel that it's much slower on Win32 in comparison to Office 2003 in terms of loading times, but the machine is fast enough as to not be able to tell a difference during usage. I don't use either very heavily, though. On 5/16/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > Why do you feel that OpenOffice is better than Microsoft Office? > > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author: > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" > > Download your free copies: > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/ > > willhill wrote: > > Open Office is better than Office but both are quirky and I would not > use > > either for a big job. For quick one or two page papers with graphics, > Open > > Office does the job on GNU/Linux with less hardware than a comparable > > Microsoft system. I miss Word Perfect, which was easier and more > reliable > > than either. My preference is for KWord, which is also quirky but very > light > > and easy to use. The quirks I've run into are related to SVG and > KFormula > > and might have some teething issues with ODF. For my thesis, I'm using > > Kile/Latex and it's saving me all sorts of formating headaches. For > business > > use, Open Office is more than adequate. > > > > The problem is that Microsoft has introduced yet another format that no > one > > else can read. The new Office uses this format as it's default and they > have > > made it difficult to find the "save as" button or to see what kind of > > document you have saved. People who don't have someone managing these > > settings for them are going to have problems right away. Users of older > > versions of Office and Open Office are going to have problems if the new > > Office takes off. > > > > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 10:48 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> I'm curious what you guys think about OpenOffice vs. Office and even > vs. > >> Google Office. > >> > >> http://www.techevangelism.com/2007/05/16/who-uses-openoffice/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070516/fe558e62/attachment.html
