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EIOffice 2004 vs. MS Office 2003
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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It's nice to see a bunch of competing office suites like Star Office and OpenOffice.
I never really seen Java applications as being platform independent, I mean they only run on a one platform, the JVM.
Sure there are different JVM platforms, but then again Intel, AMD and Via x86 cpus are all different implementations of the same platform.
Making truly platform independent software is impossible, at least that my opinion.
What I don't get is why they picked Java, sure it's a nice enough language, but as many others point out it's amazingly slow, mostly because of the whole JVM concept. Why didn't they just pick a nice platform independent graphics library and the whole thing in some nice ANSI C or perhaps C++, which make it compile on pretty much anything. I think that to many people fail to see the advantages that C and C++ holdes when it come to develop cross-platform software. I can't think of a single platform for which there does not exist an ANSI C compiler. Granted the graphics libraries are somewhat of a problem, but nothing you couldn't pay TrollTech to take care of for you.
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