<br> I can only offer a user's point of view.<br><br> Very slow to load, very bloated. Open office Calc takes up to 184 seconds to open an excel sheet that requires 1 second on Excel 2003, on a 3ghz hyperthreading pentium. The office writer application takes 37,660KB (37 megabytes) to load up in. (
<a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119">http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=119</a> )<br><br> Google is planning to do some hiring for engineers to work on open office. <a href="http://news.com.com/Google+throws+bodies+at+OpenOffice/2100-7344_3-5920762.html?tag=st.ref.goo">
http://news.com.com/Google+throws+bodies+at+OpenOffice/2100-7344_3-5920762.html?tag=st.ref.goo</a><br><br> Sun is working with Google on other things also, in the Java area. <a href="http://news.com.com/Sun+and+Google+shake+hands/2100-1014_3-5888701.html?tag=nl">
http://news.com.com/Sun+and+Google+shake+hands/2100-1014_3-5888701.html?tag=nl</a><br><br> I think that the landscape may change before such a project would be completed, but I'm not sure.<br><br> 2.0 is very compliant with Microsoft Office for those that have heavy duty machines.
<br><br>wade<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lynn Allan</b> <<a href="mailto:l_d_allan@adelphia.net">l_d_allan@adelphia.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does anyone have significant experience with
OpenOffice? The 2.0 release recently was released and claims to be VERY
compliant with XML standards.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have not followed the progress of OO 2.0
particularly closely, and have no experience with ver 1.x. My impression is
that OO 2.0 might be applicable to OSIS (but I am a newbie wrt
osis). My direct interest is that OO 2.0 might be applicable in
preparing something like a SharingBible that simplified XSLT
issues..</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Input appreciated. Hope all is well.</font></div>
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