Can of Open Office 3.1 opened, sauced

Sorry but this still fails, christ word perfect from 10 years ago is still better than this.

There is nothing stopping you from improving OO and submitting your improvements to be included in the next release. It IS open source, ya know, and that is precisely the idea behind it.

sauce for for people living hello world. seriously who they are fooling. The MS office suite is not about polishing same spot again and again. MS office is now light years ahead with OLAP, Cubes, Cube-Write-Back, collaboration on worksheets through Sharepoint-Integration. OpenOffice guys are shining their shoe hoing someday they would see their face in its reflection. One has to polish code to an extent then move ahead. This is the tragedy with Apple and OpenOffice guys just polishing the same spot.

You can tell people are complaining for the sake of complaining...

@Steve: WordPerfect Office X4: AUD$149 (Student/Home Edition) to AUD$359 (Standard Edition) and only on Windows. OpenOffice: AUD$0 and on Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX. (With ports on FreeBSD, NetBSD, IRIX, Tru64, OS/2, eComStation, and OpenVMS).

@Muhammad Imran/mi1400: Yes! Light years ahead in features!...Also light years ahead in price and licensing conditions! I don't seem to recall "Office Genuine Advantage" in OpenOffice, do you? And you pay for that feature happily? LOL! OSX and Windows only? Come on! As for your collaboration features: Look at OpenGroupware.org...I can start a business with $0 for my software licensing budget. Can you?

@Tom

open-sauce "rocks"!!!

The "biggest" windows-- open source migration still hasn't done after 4/5 years.

Someone still remember (Germany) Munich Linux migration project?

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/030108-ossi.html?page=1

So many execuses. 15000 PC migration isn't a small job, but 4/5 years are ridiculous. What a shame.

Show me your 0$ software licensing budget business please or
do you really mean:
your business = 0$ + 0 productivity + unlimited hack time?

Why are people making retarded comparisons?

Open source encourages streamlining and tweaking. This allows the program to run on older PCs. And Word Perfect from 10 years ago isn't better.

I like (the free) OO better than my pirated Office.

I have been using the Beta recently. It's pretty good for what I need, which is not much really since the days of writing documents as files and printing them seem like ancient history to me.

I tend to use it to read old stuff or things that other people send me.

I don't use spreadsheets much of course, and that might not have a modern web-2 equivalent yet, apart efforts like google's.

Basically, the read/write web is what interests me because it's collaborative and your documents can be searched for. Word and so on are absolutely stone age in that sense and OO is my archeologist's digging tool.

I've been using OO since 1.1 after switching from MS Office and then Corel WP Suite. Since that time I have yet to find a single feature I needed that it didn't have.

If that day ever comes where I do find one I suppose I might consider going back and using the MS or Corel suites, but until that time comes I just don't see the point in flushing 100, 200, 300, or 400 dollars down the toilet on an office suite when you can download a comperable office suite for no cost other than your internet bandwidth.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool if YOU go ahead and buy it. It's just I can think of a hell of a lot better things to do with that money.

OO will do basic document and spreadsheet creating/reading, which is probably all 80%+ of computer users need. Even when I had to do some intermediate speadsheet programming for work, I still prefered my OO Calc experience to my MS Excell experience.

And even if I could get a pirated a copy of MS Office or get on for free somehow, I would still continue use OO because it's a better fit for me than the other two choices I mentioned.

Nobody is claiming OpenOffice works better or has more features than MS Word. The fact is OpenOffice works Well enough. If you've pirated MS Word and are comparing $0 MS Word with $0 OpenOffice, then OpenOffice isn't going to win. However if you make the true (and legal) comparison of $200-$400 MS Word vs $0 OpenOffice then Openoffice is the best choice for many people, especially home users.

...common! This belongs to the government - what do you expect?

I was always glad to work in OO but what will I do with people around? They have M$ products at office and at home. They will always get creative and send me docs with cliparts inside fancy textboxes inside convoluted tables inside weirdly styled paragraphs that even Bill Gates won't know how they came to that.

And I will not be able to open them properly, let alone edit and send back a M$-compliant result. Office wins.

There is no doubt that Microsoft Office is better than OpenOffice.

There is no doubt that a Porsche 911 is better than a Mazda Miata.

If you have the money then go with Microsoft Office.

I personally use OpenOffice (but drive a Porsche ;-)

Cheers,
Peter

If a contributor to OOO is reading these comments here, I would just like to thank him/her for the contribution he/she has made to OOO. I'm using OOO, and, while it isn't perfectly suited to my tastes (only because I'm used to MS Office), I still feel it's a good package. It comes pretty much complete and most people don't use all features of an office suite anyway.

For the price you pay (or DON'T pay), it's a damn good package.

Hi,

I do volunteer work for Contact, Morpeth UK, a charity for people with mental health problems.

So far we've given away 100+ PCs all with OpenOffice (& other bits of F/OSS) on them. People use them to write letters, poems etc - these are real world examples of OpenOffice being particularly useful.

Thanks, guys - to _all_ F/OSS developers.

Ian

I did a home study course on word and excel recently.I don't have Microsoft word, I use OOo. I did everything in the course with OOo and passed the tests.What can M$ do that OOo can't?