| Tobias DiPasquale on 13 Sep 2004 01:29:02 -0000 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 12, 2004, at 9:11 PM, Art Alexion wrote: Article from The Register. This one says Linux ready for the desktop in two years... Good find. This article was pretty well researched and presented both sides of the issue, albeit a bit short. <story> On one of the note about OSS components playing catchup to MS Office in the story, I find it to be somewhat true. I persuaded my CFO into trying OpenOffice.org instead of paying the $TOOMUCH for Microsoft Office XP for his new laptop (he was initially attracted to the price tag *wink*). He did so, and was fine for a few days, until one night he tried to do something that was apparently a snap in Excel, but which took him 4 hours to accomplish in OOCalc. He walked in the next morning with a brand new copy of Office XP and swore off OpenOffice.org after that. </story> He still uses Mozilla and Gaim as his primary Web browser and IM, respectively, but relies on MS Office to get his work done because OOo just wasn't up to his requirements. Granted, he uses many more features of Excel than the typical Office user (pivot tables, whatever they are ;-), but I could relate to that note in the article because of that experience. I don't use OOo that much (only for reading Word and Excel files I am sent) and for me it works just fine, but for power users it has a way to go. Fortunately, Sun and the rest of the OOo crew seem hellbent on getting OOo prime-time, so I don't think we'll have to wait too long a time before it's viable competition for the desktops of even the most finicky power users. - -- Tobias DiPasquale 202A 04C4 2CE6 B985 8520 88D6 CD25 1A6C B9B5 1595 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBRPe1zSUabLm1FZURAoZMAJ4l1jBT8vn2/2lNmPvcs0Z+3SM9VwCfVkT0 yvtYz0QT8+xTy0oMOkmcAdA= =/DZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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