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EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003

Posted by michael on from the with-the-speed-of-pure-java dept.

ryen writes "Designed to compete against MS Office, EIOffice 2004 is coded in Java therefore able to run on both Windows and Linux. EIOffice 2004 offers features which should get a few users' attention, but does it have enough to have people switching from MS Office? Flexbeta has the review." That's Evermore Integrated Office, if you're wondering.

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  1. Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's Evermore Integrated Office, if you're wondering.

    Heh. Not anymore.

    Ack, even I'm getting tired of the "we slashdotted your site" jokes.

    1. Re:Slashdotted by NoData · · Score: 5, Funny

      There was a server on a farm...

      E-I E-I EIOffice.

      And that server got slashdotted.

      E-I E-I EIOffice.

      With a packet dropped here...and a packet dropped there...

      (why? why hurt?)

    2. Re:Slashdotted by stealthyburrito · · Score: 5, Funny

      At first I thought it was a Spanish version of Office:

      El Office Grando.

    3. Re:Slashdotted by EvilAlien · · Score: 2, Funny
      In Canada, "EI" is Employment Insurance, formerly known as Unemployment Insurance. It is what people who work pay so that people who don't work can get money anyways.

      A small part of my brain that is normally kept in solitary confinement made the link between EI and EIOffice initially, and somewhere from there I thought that this would have something to do with outsourcing and "Canadian" jobs moving overseas.

      I'm comforted to discover that the scariest thing in this article is an office suite coded in Java, aka Consume All Resources And Make My Machine Unusuable ;)

      --
      perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
  2. EIOffice? by DrCode · · Score: 3, Funny

    Was this done by Old MacDonald?

    1. Re:EIOffice? by paranode · · Score: 2, Funny

      Old MacDonald wrote an office suite, EI EI Oh!

      And with that suite he takes on Bill, EI EI Whoa!

      With a click click here, and a load load there, here a click, there a load, everywhere a click load.

      Old MacDonald wrote it in Java, EI EI Slow!

      ;)

  3. Re:Summary of Slashdot comments by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

    7) SLASHDOTTED ALREADY?! We need some sort of automatic mirror set up!

    8) Goatse.

  4. get this out of the way by Tsiangkun · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is great ! I have been waiting for the helpfulness of clippy combined with the performance of java.

    1. Re:get this out of the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      slap that on the usability of emacs and you'd have the ultamate box no one could use!

  5. Bad Name by greyhoundofdeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Canada EI stands for Employment Insurance, something you collect when you lost your job, affectionately known as "The Pogy." So looking at EIOffice, does it mean that your employment in an office is ensured, or is it the Pogy Office where you pick up your cheque?

    1. Re:Bad Name by jimlintott · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course the actual EI Office is located at the HRDC Office.

  6. Runs in Java on Windows by freeze128 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have NEVER seen a Java application RUN on Windows. Instead, they just seem to execute slowly...

  7. Re:Summary of Slashdot comments by happyfrogcow · · Score: 3, Funny

    9) All your base ...

    10) vi? Sorry, I think you mean Emacs.

  8. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny
    "hehe, what about all the other platforms there's a JVM for? Like, uh, OS X? Solaris?"

    You're forgeting the Java moto. "Write once, run once, mabey twice, three times if your lucky".

    --

    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
  9. Re:Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ok. Maybe we're not talking about the same thing? I'm running this IDE called Eclipse on my P3 800mhz. It's written in java, and slower than the kids on the small bus. Drives me nuts! Too bad it's a group standard...

  10. El Office by CitznFish · · Score: 5, Funny

    El Office - A product of Mexico

    --
    'mmmmmmmmm.... forbidden donut'
    1. Re:El Office by dasmegabyte · · Score: 2, Funny

      I can't wait to use ElOffice "Palabra." Not to mention their spreadsheet programa, "Excelente!"

      --
      Hey freaks: now you're ju
  11. Color me stupid ... by Bronz · · Score: 2, Funny

    but I have problems with Java and Linux. I think others do too. I think things like this should be qualified with "could run on linux" as opposed to "so it runs on linux". But maybe that's just to raise my self-esteem.

  12. support for EIOffice by ezzewezza · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they could get Nelly to promote it.

    Andele andele mami, E.I. E.I.
    OFF-IIIIIIIIIIICE! What's happenin now?
    Andele andele mami, E.I. E.I.
    OFF-IIIIIIIIIIICE! If the head right, Nelly there ery'night

  13. Re:Do Java Apps still feel "creepy" and slow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you mean "creepy" like in the middle aged guy who hangs out near high school and oogles 15 year old girls while wearing a trenchcoat?

    Yes.

  14. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by daeley · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Written in Java so it can run on both Windows and Linux"

    Reminds me of Blues Brothers:

    "What kind of music do you usually have here?"

    "Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country *and* Western!"

    --
    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  15. Do you want fries with that? by Prototerm · · Score: 2, Funny

    You get a free office suite with every Happy Meal.

    --
    "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
  16. have you ever... by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"

    I tried your advice, now the state has custody, so I guess it's back to the TV

    thanks you insensitive clod

  17. Like Poe's "The Raven" by breon.halling · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quoth the server, "Nevermore." =)

    --
    "Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
    1. Re:Like Poe's "The Raven" by Mwongozi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Once upon a midnight dreary, while I p0rn-surfed, weak and weary,
      Over many a strange and spurious p0rn-site of "hot XXX galore",
      While I clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
      And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour,
      "Tis not possible," I muttered, "give me back my free hardcore!"
      Quote the server, "404."

  18. Re:one word by oliverthered · · Score: 2, Funny

    xslt

    --
    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  19. here! by eegad · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've got your lost packet right here! Oh, and there's another one! They're everywhere!

  20. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 5, Funny
    "hehe, what about all the other platforms there's a JVM for? Like, uh, OS X? Solaris?"

    You're forgeting the Java moto. "Write once, run once, mabey twice, three times if your lucky".
    Back in 99, Symantec (of Visual Cafe fame) sent me a flyer for a new Java Debugger. They were trying to play off of Java's motto, but "Write once, Debug everywhere" made me laugh really hard.

    --
  21. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "sufficiently complex applications *I* have written in Java -- including a mass mail server"

    great, SPAMmers are using Java now, it figures

  22. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by dasmegabyte · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hence why I used the term "sufficiently." Welcome to the English language, where adverbs can be used to alter the meaning of adjectives! It's truly wonderful!

    --
    Hey freaks: now you're ju
  23. Re:Both Platforms? WOW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What kind of chip you got in there? A dorito?