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Funny story:

On a ~2.4 P4 with 2G RAM running RHE3:

Using this file: http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.sxc (3.7Megs)

In every following case the processor was being 95+% utilized by OO.

OO2 and 001.14 perform about the same. The file took 5 minutes to open and maxed at 350M ram.

So, I save the test file as Excel in OO2. And: 1.03G of RAM is sucked up! It frees some of it up once the file is saved but now it's using 661M RAM. The file took about 90 seconds to save.

Anyway, I quit 002, relaunch it and use it to open the Excel file I just saved. It takes 45 seconds and uses 140M RAM. So I save this file as another Excel file and it takes about 15 seconds to save and the RAM only jumps 474M (and stays there even with only one 50M file open doing nothing.)

The test data file is like 3.7 Megs and the saved Excel file is 50 Megs.

LOL, it's funny because it's so stupid.

The CPU comparison was done with NO DATA. With just apps launching and doing nothing else. If you still think he is doing something with statistics, try it yourself. Just open the apps and check the available resources.

The comparison between opening documents is as trasparent as they get. He even POSTED THE SAMPLE FILES HE TESTED WITH!

SXC - http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.sxc

XML - http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.zip

Read the files. Find out if the documents are fixed. If you think he did, provide documents that OO will open faster than Office.

C'mon. Conspiracy charges may work with assasinations, but this so easy to test yourself, you have no excuse to charge bias without providing some facts.

Are you REALLY that lazy? OR whatever you don't agree with, you just label "biased"? May be you should go work for FOXNews...

The CPU comparison was done with NO DATA. With just apps launching and doing nothing else. If you still think he is doing something with statistics, try it yourself. Just open the apps and check the available resources.

The comparison between opening documents is as trasparent as they get. He even POSTED THE SAMPLE FILES HE TESTED WITH!

SXC - http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.sxc

XML - http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.zip

Read the files. Find out if the documents are fixed. If you think he did, provide documents that OO will open faster than Office.

C'mon. Conspiracy charges may work with assasinations, but this so easy to test yourself, you have no excuse to charge bias without providing some facts.

Are you REALLY that lazy? OR whatever you don't agree with, you just label "biased"? May be you should go work for FOXNews...

http://www.lanarchitect.net/Examples/200264-l.zip

(And the obligatory coral link)
http://www.lanarchitect.net.nyud.net:8090/Examples /200264-l.zip

OK guys, time to benchmark!

Not to argue about whether or not OOo is more bloated than Office, but George Ou has always seemed to be ranting pro-MS and putting forth statements like this just to get the reaction.

Here's his webpage

And his other ZDNet entries

Also, you might want to check out the comments already posted to his review of OOo beta2

He provided the test data here and here

He provided the test data here and here

and Some sensible advice on how really to secure it

Mind you I don't recommend that you turn on SSID broadcast, or turn off mac addr. filtering, but, these options will diter only novice users from stumbling accidently on your WLAN.

But security is not about stopping these novice users, who are less likely to cause any damage in the first place, It's more about stopping someone who is really determined to get in, in order to at best steal your bandwidth or at worst do some real damage like get sensetive data from your PCs.