[Gllug] Office software

[Steve Nicholson]

> I get the feeling (having previously played with StarOffice)
> that it has been
> ported to *nix with little understanding of the nature of *nix systems
> (ie multi user), it is still a big application - ie need a
> m/c with lots of RAM to run it on.

My understanding is the programs haven't been separated out with the
move to open office.  You don't get the desktop as in Star office and it
looks like you have individual programs but it all runs from a big
monolithic core (same as star office) so requires the same amount of
resources.  When you open a new program e.g. spreadsheet you are just
opening another window, great if you have lots of memory and processor
speed not so good on slow machines coz it takes so long to start
initially.

This understanding has only been gained from reading reports about it
and documentation on openoffice.org so possibly wrong since I haven't
played with it, I've only used star office which is too slow on the
systems I have.

Steve.


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