Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Oct 2005 06:43 UTC, submitted by gubol123
This is an interesting comparison of OpenOffice 2.0 Calc and MS Office 2003 Excel. The author found that OOo is slow in some operations and takes a lot of RAM & CPU.
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RE[2]: Quite useless benchmark
by dylansmrjones on Thu 27th Oct 2005 14:07
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No it doesn't.
Fact is, that if you calculate the combined resource usage of socalled system libs in windows and Office applications, the numbers get very different 
However, the test made by the astroturfer George Ou (remember his last test?) shows that there are issues when converting from one format to another, especially in regard to wrong usage of the formats.
No sane person would do what George Ou did in these files.
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2005-07-06
Its not just a few fps. OpenOffice 3-4 times as much memory and CPU cycles.
Granted I have used Word and Excel much more than OpenOffice but I used OpenOffice exclusively for my MBA and I found Calc to be infuriating at times. I really wish I could use 1-2-3 style '/' to access common functions. Charting on Calc was horrible. The ability to create sections in Word is superior as automatically inserting tables of contents.
OLE is also much better with MSOffice.