PreviousMonday 20 October 2003, 8:21 PM
Free with lots of ability but not basic ones to make use of the other functions
I have all versions of MS Office, and decided to try out open office on RH9: it was a total disappointment. It simply is not well developed, with too many bugs and too many useless things. For example, PDF conversion: this is a professional user's function, whereas you cannot convert text to columns, cannot open a data file that is 20MB (Calc) -- in MS office I can open a 200MB data file in less than a 100th of the time it took to open a 1MB file, and then it couldn't map it into columns.
IMHO it is very useful for elementary schools, not universites or profesionals, and why waste effort putting functions that only profesionals use? Use the effort to improve speed and ease of use, a good help system so that people at home can use it easily on a low spec machine, and leave the profesionals to MS Office as they can pay whatever amount for all the bits and pieces needed for high-end use.
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