Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2007 21:58 UTC, submitted by andrewg
Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y George Ou compares Microsoft Office 2007 to OpenOffice 2.2 in memory and CPU usage using the OOXML and ODF file formats. The conclusion according to Ou: "We can see that the OpenOffice.org ODF XML parser (while vastly improved) is still about 5 times slower than Microsoft's OOXML parser. OpenOffice.org also seems to consume nearly 4 times the amount of RAM to hold the same data. While OpenOffice.org continues to have fewer features than Microsoft Office, it continues to consume far more resources than Microsoft."
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Has room to improve
by anduril on Sun 29th Apr 2007 22:21 UTC
anduril
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While I would use OpenOffice on occasion on my linux boxes, I vastly preferred Abiword. It had a nicer interface and used far, far less resources. I think the developers maybe need to take a step back and do the hard and boring work of cleaning OO out and then looking into more features.