Ontario Education ministry buys Star Office

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

At 10:53 PM 28/05/2004 -0400, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 20:50, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
[snip]
> > > Besides, I never loved these Java-based products, taking unneccessary
> > > to much resources (CPU and RAM). Upgrading these 10,000 computers so
> > > that they can be used effectively with either starOffice or openoffice
> > > will cost much more than any licences.
> >
> > Hm???  StarOffice and OpenOffice.org are written in C++, not Java.
> >
> > They may represent bloated C++, but then you should accuse them of being
> > crummy due to C++, not Java.
>
>Indeed.  Although after experiencing how slow OO is, it's an
>understandable mistake.  I'm moderately terrified to see how EI Office
>is, being as it *is* written in Java.

I realize the word "fast" is rarely used in the same sentence as OpenOffice 
but, I compiled OOo from source on Gentoo recently and it made a 
substantial difference in performance. I was running OOo 1.1.1 previously 
on Mandrake on this laptop. Now, I am running Gentoo with kernel 2.6.6 and 
OOo. The perceived speed of OOo is still slower then MS Office running on 
Windows on the same hardware but it is quite acceptable. Don't ask how long 
it took to compile but I didn't need the machine while it was busy anyway:) 
By the way, I am not using prelinking. That is supposed to make things 
faster for some apps, like OOo.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3P6

Tel: 416-410-3326 

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