One of the features some users overlook in OpenOffice.org is its built-in programming language, OpenOffice.org Basic. Why would you want a programming language built into your word processor? It's there to help you to automate tasks. It won't make the tea for you, but it will help you to carry out many repetitive jobs with a minimum of effort.
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A start, but it doesn't let me type a script in Notepad to open an Excel sheet, parse all the cells and do a bucket sort comparison on post codes and write two XML spreadsheets with the results before updating an ODBC database and then send an AJAX request to fire a server initiated backup.
ActiveX on the non-browser side is unsurpassed in many ways.
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The design flaw is not using BASIC for scripting.
The flaw is to use the same language for system scripting, closely integrated with the browser.
Most security issues in Windows can be traced back to the IE integration. Such an integration does not exists between system and OOo so there is no security threat.
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The professionals have to use a mature, stable, and feature rich tool like Microsoft Office.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software - from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Oh, you want this...
http://udk.openoffice.org
...in addition to or in place of OOo Basic.
Let me know if this doesn't meet your needs.
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The professionals have to use a mature, stable, and feature rich tool like Microsoft Office.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software - from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Low level astroturfer - what do you do sweep the floors at Redmond 
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