Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Apr 2007 21:58 UTC, submitted by andrewg
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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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.
I wish them luck, and I acknowledge Sun's invaluable contribution to the free software community, but OpenOffice seems to be a dead end. It's not a free software project, it's a proprietary application suite that happens to be free software. It doesn't have the DNA of the community baked into it, and that's why it doesn't operate like a free software application.
I hear you on Abiword, but the GNOME project seems to have abandoned its GNOME Office efforts. This, too, seems like a dead end.
I recently re-evaluated KOffice at version 1.6, and I was very impressed. The roadmap for version 2.0 looks great as well. It's snappy, attractive, and it works well overall. The major sticking point is no attempt at MS format compatibility. But it was the first office suite to support ODF, and with a reliable ODF<=>OOXML converter, it could reshape the competitive landscape for free software office suites, especially if it's available on Windows. This one is free software through-and-through, and it shows.