I have a love/hate relationship with open office. I ran the IT department of a healthcare company for 3 years in south jersey. I was hired to basically build their computer/network infrustructure from scratch because everything they had was coming off lease.
So I had 2 months to build 50 machines (ultimately turned out to be 75), replace all of the networking equipment and wire all of their buildings with cat 5 cable.
The only way I could pull it off was to buy amd durons and build the machines from scratch with open source software. Open office turned out to be our second most critical app. I had to build tons of label templates and spreadsheets in it.
Problem with open office is that back then it was soooo buggy and no one understood why we couldn't just use ms office. I had to work around so many bugs to prevent me from looking like a fool for using it. I had spreadsheets that were improperly adding up columns, and this was after the 1.0 final was released.
When I look at open office today I'm very disappointed that it's still extremely slow and bloated. There's a ton of fat that needs to be trimmed from this program. I really think the developers took the wrong path in development. Something with a much lighter footprint that's rock-solid stable would have been a better approach than including everything and the kitchen sink.
I still primarily use open office, but I'm starting to like koffice too. I just hope as Sun and Google get more involved in OOo's development the product get more refined and professional.
So I had 2 months to build 50 machines (ultimately turned out to be 75), replace all of the networking equipment and wire all of their buildings with cat 5 cable.
The only way I could pull it off was to buy amd durons and build the machines from scratch with open source software. Open office turned out to be our second most critical app. I had to build tons of label templates and spreadsheets in it.
Problem with open office is that back then it was soooo buggy and no one understood why we couldn't just use ms office. I had to work around so many bugs to prevent me from looking like a fool for using it. I had spreadsheets that were improperly adding up columns, and this was after the 1.0 final was released.
When I look at open office today I'm very disappointed that it's still extremely slow and bloated. There's a ton of fat that needs to be trimmed from this program. I really think the developers took the wrong path in development. Something with a much lighter footprint that's rock-solid stable would have been a better approach than including everything and the kitchen sink.
I still primarily use open office, but I'm starting to like koffice too. I just hope as Sun and Google get more involved in OOo's development the product get more refined and professional.
