OpenOffice is terribly slow under Linux, and Office, while being pricey, is darn fast on Windows. I am really getting sick of these “defences at all costs” of opensource software, really… it just takes honesty. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head… how is that possible that office run under Linux via crossover starts quicker than Openoffice?
Don’t zip it, give a choice not to zip it, make a binary snapshots, do something, one minute per document when recalculated to work hours and productivity, consumes that “free vs MS’s 200$” argument really fast. It is great to have a free and open format, but it is a pain in the ass to explain to customers that one minute load times are a price that has to be paid for that openess.
if any of developers is reading this, OOo consumes all of processor, and actually freezes all of opened OOo windows while opening a file, really baaad UI decision and programming).
It just a real shame that a free software with such a great functionality is failing short on simple stupid thing, extremely long time for opening of files (btw. It is a Java app, and opened document looked ugly (no AA fonts), and worked slower than OOo, and was using a little bit more of memory, but, they too have to filter xls format, and how in the hell did they managed to do it 15 times faster using Java, than OOo guys using C ++? I don’t know, I never looked at OOo filters codebase, but it just feels that guys are doing something totally wrong. However, it started faster (2 secs for EIOffice, 4 for OOo), and it opened bloddy 5 Mb xls file UNDER 4 seconds! More than 10X faster than OOo 2.0. It is a full Java app, it should be slower. But then I remembered EIoffice instalation I had somewhere when I was evaluating it (nice chinese clone of MS Office, written completely in Java). Then I thought, well, damn MS and their format, OOo guys have so much trouble to filter it. Tried saving in native xml format, well, it takes even more. Well, OOo really takes one minute for 5 Mb xsl table. So I tried on my machine, 3.2 Ghz, 1 Gig ram, top notch machine. xsl table) had something to do with wrong setup. 5 Gig of ram) so I thought perfs they were reporting (one minute for opening that. The reason was they both had a few pretty big (5 Mb) excel tables, nothing spectacular, just big yearly sales plans. We were installing 1.1 on our clients computers, and in very short time I had two of our customers asking for MS Office after just week or so working with OOo. However, it is still almost unusably slow, especially when opening largeish xls documents. It looks much nicer, works faster, and opens document more accuratelly than 1.x series. I’m running it on my linux boxes since build 30something.
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