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KOffice Team: A Handful of Coders, a Lot of Code

Posted by timothy on from the kword-rocks dept.

nickbrown writes: "In this interview with the KOffice development team it is revealed that only about 4-6 people are working on the suite of applications. It would appear they lack the resources to keep up with the likes of openoffice. Worth a read as it highlights the troubles they are having trying to produce a truly productive office suite for KDE."

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  1. pushing this rock up the hill by prisoner · · Score: 1, Redundant

    probably isn't worth it to most people. Face it, when MS has 90% of the office market and businesses are willing to pay, it just doesn't seem worth it. Could there come a point when you could get a sizable number of defectors to switch? Yes, but MS isn't going to price their cash cow in such a manner as to kill it. A bit off-topic but one interesting facet to this argument is the one about purchasing from MS as they provide "support". When was the last time that your average business user called MS for support?

  2. But why? by chill · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Yet Another Office Suite...

    It is kind of hard to get motivated for KOffice when OpenOffice, Star Office, Applix (still around?) and other acceptable components such as Abiword, Gnumeric, etc. exist.

    There is nothing wrong with KOffice, though personally I have a hard time with frame-based word processors. It just seems that there is a lot of redundancy in these office projects and that sort of saps the strength of those with the necessary skills. You can only do so much.

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  3. Why do they have to make a separate office suite ? by gupg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I don't get it - why do they have to "keep up" with openoffice - why not just join them ?

    Why not pool resources with other open source projects ?