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OpenOffice Bloated?
cygnusx writes "ZDNet's George Ou has been writing a series of posts about Open Office bloat. Includes some interesting system usage comparisons" From the article: "Even when dealing with what is essentially the same data, OpenOffice Calc uses up 211 MBs of private unsharable memory while Excel uses up 34 MBs of private unsharable memory. The fact that OpenOffice.org Calc takes about 100 times the CPU time explains the kind of drastic results we were getting where Excel could open a file in 2 seconds while Calc would take almost 3 minutes. Most of that massive speed difference is due to XML being very processor intensive, but Microsoft still handles its own XML files about 7 times faster than OpenOffice.org handles OpenDocument ODS format and uses far less memory than OpenOffice.org."
I like it! Incidentally, until Google indexes this thread, the term "bloat compatible" is and will be a google whack blatt. I've tried to find one of those several times and never succeeded, so I want to offer you my congratulations for finding one without even trying!
Allegedly real newspaper headline from 1998:
Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
Wintel vs. Intdows? Sounds like "Ain't Those". I've *always* heard it suggested that that "wintel" refers to a collusion between Microsoft and Intel. Googling for "wintel collusion" finds many who define "wintel" in terms of collusion, suggesting that MS Bloat sells Intel's newer, faster chips. I've heard this, like, almost forever...
But Google ignores punctuation!
And I'd like to point out that even though I misspelled it, "Bayesian Babble" also only has exactly one hit, also in a page of, what else, Bayesian Babble.
#naabhaprzrag, #sverubfr-000, #agi-fcbafberq, negvpyr[pynff*=' negvpyr-ary-'] { qvfcynl: abar !vzcbegnag; }
is it a true whack though? you use quotes to delimit the results. If you omit the results you get a lot more.
(BTW the bayesian babble wordlist page has already been slashdotted. Nice)
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Even more so, when you consider this.
My god... I thought that page was a joke until I looked at the URL!
Microsoft's entire web site has a sort of sickeningly sweet pandering-to-the-clueless-majority feel to it, but at least it's relatively low-key pandering. This subsite ("mactopia") on the other hand, is cringe-inducingly awful -- it's like the same dull web-designers that do MS's general site were trying to mimic Apple's style, but ended up producing a rather cruel mockery of it instead.
We live, as we dream -- alone....
We had a similar discussion regarding Novell and TCP/IP...
TCP/IP was PROVEN to be slower, used more memory and cost more to support.
Score ONE for the market leader.
We revisted the discussion withg VMS vs Unix.
VMS was PROVEN to be faster, more resource efficient and delived a safer support value system.
When they suggested that we should drop our elegant and highly reliable SNA network
for the Internet, we did the benchmarks and showed that security was impossible
to guarantee for critical data when we didn't control the WAN. Don't GO there...
Product are market leaders for a reason... because they sell more than anything
and these "try this/it's free" proponents will never hire enough seasoned resources to
out-code a market leader that has a revenue stream on the order of Billions/year.
It's a simple investment verity! One-Billion downloads at $0 is $0 in revenue.
It's worse than that... who pays for the servers and downloads. Think ROI!
Why we need to revisit this issue again and again is beyond me.
Some people just never learn from history. The author of the article
seems to have some experience in predicting the best use of
IT investments.
I need to get back to my Cobol account app that needs new patches
for our brilliant Web/3270 frontend release.
You slashdotters just need to learn from your wiser, older IT system analysts
before we die off. It's almost too late! There is no such thing as a free lunch...
Lunch doesn't just grow in trees. Your lunch gets cooked in factories like the
think tanks in Redmond and Armonk and Cupertino. Chao.
My post shot up to 4 at first (probably 5), then dropped to -1 and now has oscillated between 1 and 0. (Wouldn't it be cool if moderators could get together, cancel out all the conflicting moddings, and then apply their mod points to other posts?)
I'm just not going to say anymore on this, except that the thing about "running laps around MS" was a general evaluation, not necessarily concerning the speed and storage issues. OO.o is so much easier to use for me, I just love it. That's why I made the incriminating "lap" comment.
Rank my idea: http://www.sinceslicedbread.com/node/531