[wplug] new kid in town

[Bill]

I'm with Lance on this...I've seen a lot of folks diss OpenOffice, and I
just don't get it.  Half my company uses linux and half Windows with
OfficeXP.  I have had few issues exchanging files with the Windows
folks, and these problems have been more a product of my own ignorance
than any technology shortcomings.

And for the record, my box is a frankenstein monster of legacy parts,
nothing particularly modern or fast.  OpenOffice takes a few seconds to
start, but I've never had it lock my box.

Might the issues others are experiencing be jvm related?  I'm using the
standard Sun version.

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 16:31, Lance Tost wrote:
> On 16 Jun 2003, Shawn Henderson wrote:
> 
> > Although Open Office is really a hog and keeps locking up the PC's. Are
> > there any ideas on a windoze compatible office suite that is kinda lean.
> > I know star office but to complex of a learning curve for these users
> > and kde office is just not good enough yet. Any help would be
> 
> Isnt' OpenOffice just the free version of StarOffice?  I'm not sure the 
> learning curve would be any different.
> 
> FWIW, I use OpenOffice all the time on my 1Ghz machines and it runs
> fine... not horribly slow, no locking up.  It has issues importing some
> (complex) MS Office files but what do you expect when you need to reverse
> engineer the file formats?
-- 
Bill <bhalpin at collaborativefusion.com>