OpenOffice tests show it's progressively getting slower

Shogun · 31st May 2008, 18:45

Users wanting to break away from Microsoft Windows and Office have had little viable alternatives when looking for competing products. Many of those interested in something other than Microsoft Office have chosen the OpenOffice suite of software, which offers programs and services similar to Microsoft's software suite.

Each new release of Open Office offers a slew of performance improvements, but at the same time may bloat the software so it operates more slowly. Yesterday, the independent blog OpenOffice.org Ninja posted several benchmarks providing an analysis of the continuing decline of the speed of OO.

http://www.betanews.com/article/Open...wer/1212101280

FireTech · 31st May 2008, 23:29

Interesting comment which begs the (rhetorical) question - why bother creating new versions?

As for the slowdown itself, it's probably not the kind of MS Office emulation they were intending to achieve...

Wolf2000me · 1st June 2008, 10:05

I was expecting an Open Office breakthrough last year but I guess it's only going to keep on stagnating. Eventhough MS Office is not exactly getting better either.

One also doesn't use MS Office interfaces for F/OSS applications. Even worse when MS will stop supporting ODF in favour of OOXML...

FireTech · 1st June 2008, 10:45

I thought MS recently announced that the next service pack for Office 2007 will contain ODF and other open format support?

wutske · 1st June 2008, 15:30

I don't realy mind the worse performance, even tough I hardly notice it. I'm just curious how the performance is compared to MS Office 2007 and 2003, since these are the main competitors (and as long as it's better as the competition it doesn't realy matter if it's a bit slower as before).

Wolf2000me · 1st June 2008, 15:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireTech

I thought MS recently announced that the next service pack for Office 2007 will contain ODF and other open format support?

Sadly Outlook 2007 isn't even compatible with attachements from previous versions in some cases.

And you can bet on MS not including ODF support in all of their next versions of Office.
I'll believe ODF support when I see it.

31st May 2008, 18:45	#1
Shogun [M] Reviewer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Calif. Bay Area, USA Posts: 1,748	OpenOffice tests show it's progressively getting slower Users wanting to break away from Microsoft Windows and Office have had little viable alternatives when looking for competing products. Many of those interested in something other than Microsoft Office have chosen the OpenOffice suite of software, which offers programs and services similar to Microsoft's software suite. Each new release of Open Office offers a slew of performance improvements, but at the same time may bloat the software so it operates more slowly. Yesterday, the independent blog OpenOffice.org Ninja posted several benchmarks providing an analysis of the continuing decline of the speed of OO. http://www.betanews.com/article/Open...wer/1212101280

31st May 2008, 23:29	#2
FireTech Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 268	you are welcome to continue using older versions.. Interesting comment which begs the (rhetorical) question - why bother creating new versions? As for the slowdown itself, it's probably not the kind of MS Office emulation they were intending to achieve...

1st June 2008, 10:05	#3
Wolf2000me Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Flemmish Brabant Posts: 82	I was expecting an Open Office breakthrough last year but I guess it's only going to keep on stagnating. Eventhough MS Office is not exactly getting better either. One also doesn't use MS Office interfaces for F/OSS applications. Even worse when MS will stop supporting ODF in favour of OOXML... __________________ Asus Maximus Formula // Intel Q6600 G0 3.7Ghz // (OCZ 2048MB 1066MHZ REAPER == junk) Asus Geforce EN8800GT // 2x 74Gb WD Raptors R0 Eheim 1048 // Apogee GT // Black Ice GT Stealth 240 XFlow

1st June 2008, 15:30	#5
wutske Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Apenland Posts: 2,069	I don't realy mind the worse performance, even tough I hardly notice it. I'm just curious how the performance is compared to MS Office 2007 and 2003, since these are the main competitors (and as long as it's better as the competition it doesn't realy matter if it's a bit slower as before). __________________ /me = Hardfreak My Blog: [W]eblog

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1st June 2008, 10:45	#4
FireTech Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 268	I thought MS recently announced that the next service pack for Office 2007 will contain ODF and other open format support?