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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Member since:2006-07-30
Abiword kept crashing when I last used it.
Imo it's not really meant to replace OO. They're both for different tasks.
What I like about OO is the very good copy&paste between its different parts.
What I dislike is the startup time of approx. 10s on my "ancient" 3000+ :-(
Oh, and when I enter an equation the box always pops up in the wrong place so that I cannot see what I'm typing but it still moves the text around in an annoying way.
I would like to see a comparison of Koffice and OO.
Could be interesting to see if the cleaner code base gives Koffice a speed advantage...
Member since:2006-07-26
fyi,
I just set OO to use java 1.6 on my ubuntu box yesterday... It cut the load speed down to about 4 seconds on my work machine. Can't remember how fast the proc is, but it's an old P4 with 1G RAM running Ubuntu. Before switching to jdk1.6, it took about 20 seconds to load.
Member since:2005-07-08
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.
Member since:2005-07-06
"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."
Would you have said the same about Mozilla in 1999/2000 ?
If so, you should give OO more time to fit into the community. And for anyone that replies with "it's had years already", give it more...
Edited 2007-04-30 13:05
Member since:2007-04-30
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2005-11-11
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.