OpenOffice.org Performance

[Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique)]

Le 2 Novembre 2003 16:58, James Knott a écrit :
> Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> > Le 2 Novembre 2003 09:29, James Knott a écrit :
> >>Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> >>>Le 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org a écrit :
> >>>>>Small nitpick: OO is written in Java afaik, and most of the time is
> >>>>>spent by the Java hulk stepping out of its package(s). If OO would be
> >>>>>written in C++ and statically linked (shudder) it should come up at
> >>>>>about disk speed, assuming the right optimizations are used, just like
> >>>>>Excel on M$.
> >>>
> >>>Thanksfully OOo is getting better and faster with this new release
> >>>(OOo-1.1 and StarOffice 7).
> >>
> >>I recently installed OO0-1.1, and it's still slow loading.
> >
> > Yes, loading is slow. (As is MS office)
>
> I guess they've tried a bit to hard to make it like MS Office.  ;-)

And I like that :)
It's much easier to have it accepted by MS-addict persons (who do not know, 
nor do care, about anything else)!

Anecdote: (I have so many like this one)
One student comes to me, he has a presentation to do in an English course, and 
he says that he did everything in PowerPoint and that he also needs Windows 
Media player. The problem is that we only have Corel suites, and OpenOffice 
(the only way to get MS documents right there..).
Conclusion: the direction reminded him that we can not install other programs 
without the authorization of the School Board. End of story.

I can say we are lucky to have OpenOffice here ;)


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