Posted on 09/21/2007 6:54:03 AM PDT by NYer
Sounds like the answer is "yes".
And the company is "Microshaft"...
If you turn off the Java virtual machine in Open Office, you lose a few features (macros, I think), but the software speeds up quite nicely.
You do know that OO2.3 is out? I was informed via an icon in swriter earlier in the week. Security fixes, among other things.
At work I have to use Lotus Notes. It sucks. IBM will have to give away anything Lotus for me to use it ‘cause there is no way I would ever buy it.
I wonder if the interface is derived from the old Lotus Smart Suite products or from Open Office. I disliked the Smart Suite UI (though Office’s doesn’t really seem like it’s quite done either).
I generally never send Office docs in native format anyway. I print to PDF, and send that. It’s a static snapshot, so they can’t alter the document and have it still look like it came from me, it’s smaller, and it’s not dependant on the recipient to have any particular piece of software (even Office).
Now that’s not good for collaborative efforts where you want them to be able to modify the document, but in those cases, Open Office can save in Office formats anyway.
Yeah this is another one of those free foreign clones of US industry standards. This one started somewhere in Europe and according to reports the IBM version is being developed in China.
“I used a product called Lotus Symphony for DOS...”
As you know, Lotus Symphony was an integrated product that had word processing, spreadsheet etc in its package and the spreadsheet was similar to Lotus 1,2,3. It was a great program, and it was 1983 or so when I started using it. It even ran from 5 1/4” floppy’s. I used it first on an early IBM PC that had two 5 1/4” drives, but no harddrive.
I will take a look at this new Lotus Symphony.
“What makes you say that?”
Slow. No security integration so I have to type my passwords all the time. Messaging is not enabled yet the stupid thing won’t stop asking me for a password. Lousy features that are incomplete. No continuous mode that will alert me to incoming mail. I could go on forever.
AFAIR, OOo 2 will still run on '98, though it better be a pretty healthy box.. say 800 mhz or better w/ as much ram as possible...
Now if they offer Websphere for free...
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