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TheQuirk:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
I bet OpenOffice is not fully compatible with MS Office
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Hey, man. It's MS Office that's not compatible with OpenOffice.org! :rolleyes:
HibbeeBoy:
quote:Originally posted by M505:
I bet OpenOffice is not fully compatible with MS Office which means that you're not compatible with documents 90% of desktop users send you. While the last bit is easy to overcome when you're sending documents between friends this *IS* a real problem when dealing with customers. They simply do not care if you have a C64, Amiga or a Linux box. They will send you MS Office docs and if I can't read them they I have a problem.
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This is load of BS. The point of using open office documents is that the document format works with a large number of different office suites. It is actually in M$ best interests to make their document formats compatible with other office suites because if they don't, they are going to lose out. Why wouldn't you want to use a product that is more flexible than M$ office ? An applcation that can cope with documents from many applications has to be a good thing.
quote:Originally posted by M505:
Also, as long as the Office market is dominated by MS I don't see OpenOffice competing.
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Open office suites are going to compete on price alone.
spencerpi:
quote: This is load of BS. The point of using open office documents is that the document format works with a large number of different office suites. It is actually in M$ best interests to make their document formats compatible with other office suites because if they don't, they are going to lose out. Why wouldn't you want to use a product that is more flexible than M$ office ? An applcation that can cope with documents from many applications has to be a good thing.
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Where did I say it is bad to be compatible with loooots of other Office suites ? Nowhere. Why did you bring this up ?
My point was and still is : as long as MS has 90% of the desktop market and dominates the Office market it will be difficult for OpenOffice to compete. Even your claim to be compatible with other Office suites makes no sense because all the other Office suites together is still only 10% of the market.
I'm just saying that if the competition has 90% market share they can make life very hard for OpenOffice, like I said, by starting to fiddle with their file formats is just one problem for OpenOffice. I've never used OO but I will try it when I get round to it. We have MS Office at work which I *hate*. I don't know why MS needs over 50mb of disk space for a text editor (Word). All it has to do is show the letter on screen that you type. Pretty elementary stuff if you think about it.
That said, they can do some heavy stuff within Office, embedding documents from other applications in their documents, just to name one. I seriously doubt that OpenOffice supports all those gimmicks.
A lot of people here make it look very easy ... Photoshop ? We have The Gimp, solved. MS Office ? We have OpenOffice, solved.
It's just not true : they may come close in functionality, close enough for Joe Average but expert users will laugh at them. The lack of CMYK support in Gimp is one example.
If you take a non CMYK file to a printing company they *will* laugh at you. Deal with it and don't go claiming that The Gimp = Photoshop. It just isn't so.
spencerpi:
On a more positive note all the programs needed for webwork like html editors, ftp programs etc seem to work fine in my Mandrake 9.1 install.
KernelPanic:
I think you will be pleasanty suprised with OOo once you try it and maybe have to retract some of your post . But I have to agree on the GIMP front as it just doesnt cut it for a pro, even with all the plugins installed.
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