[TriLUG] Review of Open Office - good as MS

[Stephen P. Schaefer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

As the only Open Office user in an otherwise all Microsoft shop, I'd
like to share the troubles I had.  First, OO doesn't handle Microsoft
encrypted content.  That crippled me because MS uses encryption to lock
fields read-only, as in the time sheet Excel file I was supposed to fill
in every week. The second deficiency I've seen is in the formatting of
margin notes used by some Microsoft White Papers. For instance, look up
the "Windows 2000 Performance Tuning" white paper on Microsoft's site.
~ Most of it is rendered correctly, but, e.g., page 5, the margin blocks
are printed on top of each other, making them illegible. OpenOffice is
90% there, but if you have power Office users as colleagues, customers,
or suppliers, you're still going to feel some pain.

~    - Stephen

Jon Carnes wrote:

|This review of Open Office is fairly straight forward. The author
|concludes that Open Office can easily replace MS's product.  The only
|caveats are:
| - embedded spreadsheets, they work fine but can't be shared between MS
|and OO (if they aren't embedded, then no problems!)
| - OO has no database, it relies on MySQL or PostgreSQL.
|
|http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2126606,00.html
|
|_______________________________________________
|TriLUG mailing list
|    http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
|TriLUG Organizational FAQ:
|    http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
|
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE96qBJV//0pa9oOLcRAj+oAJsFUtStvAMZfN+eQ+nXpPowUglf7ACgrgqY
I1bKs1aUaKR32JFbLoe1SYI=
=Rokt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----