Comments on: Gov’t Office to use OpenOffice.Org

By: bacchus_3

bacchus_3 — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 14:23:47 +0000

One of the reasons why OOo2 may be bloated is because it’s built to be platform independent. It should run on any OS (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc). The reason why MS Office is more tuned than OOo2 is because it uses DLLs to take advantage of Windows performance tools (but take note this may not be the only difference). To be platform independent, OOo2 shouldn’t use these.
One good thing though is that OOo2 is more tuned than the previous versions. Better still for the next version (e.g. OOo3) as development continues.
Once the performance issues gets tuned, we may win you guys over

By: OJ

OJ — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:07:39 +0000

Now that Google has partnered with Sun, I think you’ll see a better OpenOffice release starting 3.0

By: Fleeb

Fleeb — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:07:28 +0000

Yeah, that’s the point. It’s still bloated.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:20:32 +0000

Yes, they’ve already downloaded oOo 2.0. But in my experience, it still eats up more resources than MS Office apps.

By: Clair

Clair — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 06:35:33 +0000

OOo2 is pretty light… Then there’s Abiword. It saves doc files anyway… But of course, if they have other needs OOo would still be better.

By: Koko

Koko — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 01:10:54 +0000

I am betting they already downloaded Open Office 2.0, which seems more robust and less bloated than the first version.

By: Rizalist

Rizalist — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 23:33:21 +0000

Yucch! There is a reason Microsoft still rules the desktop. OpenOffice is one of them. What we really need is for Pinoys to create their own, unbloated software to replace what’s available. How hard could that be?