[N3WBI3]

“If you employ a power user you are paying a six figure salary, the cost of MS Office becomes inconsequential compared to its value.”

It again depends on the usage..

I know folks who make a six figure salary that could not tell open office from MS Office..

Your example is aimed at providing two extremes to make Open Office look like a tinker toy. In reality 95+% of MS Office functionality exist in Open Office. For everyone ubt extreme MS-Office power users Open Office is just fine

BTW Open Office is not always playing catchup with MS Office: Which product first allowed you to export natively to PDF? Open Office..

[Big Giant Head]

I’m in that 95% that doesn’t need the extras that must exist somewhere in MS Office. Open Office has everything I’ve ever needed.

Lately I’ve been using the Go-oo version of Open Office. It’s optimized to open much faster than the regular version of Open Office. It’s version 2.4 something, not the latest 3.xx Open Office.

[microgood]

Your example is aimed at providing two extremes to make Open Office look like a tinker toy. In reality 95+% of MS Office functionality exist in Open Office. For everyone but extreme MS-Office power users Open Office is just fine.

I have not seen Open Office for a while, but I was mainly alluding to power users that would request MS Office and if they did the cost is a drop in the bucket compared to the productivity loss in having to learn a new system. One of the things about MS Office is that it got a good start on Open Office and people tend to stick with things they know.

In addition, most people are not caught up in the Microsoft is the evil empire stuff that the Unix/Java/Linux crowd is caught up in and that Open Office was created for. But I must say that if this was all written in Java and is reasonably stable, that says a lot about the effort that went into it.