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SoftMaker Rolls Out Office Suite for BSD, Linux, and Others

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the momentum dept.

martin-k writes "Commercial office suite software is coming to FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, Sharp Zaurus and Windows Mobile. SoftMaker, a German developer, recently released SoftMaker Office, a multi-platform office suite that excels in Microsoft Office compatibility, claims to be much leaner and faster than OpenOffice.org and works on many operating systems, down to PDAs." While SoftMaker certainly isn't new, it is nice to see them roll out a finished suite as opposed to one-off programs.

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  1. Re:how much better than OpenOffice? by caseih · · Score: 1, Troll

    My experience with MS Office has not been nice. Two years ago, I used for serious stuff and, boy, did I regret it. This friggin' bug made me loose everything. They told me MS Office was production-ready. So they told me. They lied, they were just a buch of Microsoft fanboys who never wrote more than 20 pages with the thing. So, this is from someone who actually had to used MS Office for more than 20 pages.

    Seriously, document corruption and data loss is not restricted to OpenOffice only. If you have to do anything in MS Office over 20 pages (say 100-200 pages), you're asking for trouble. I recommend to my users that they make lots of versions (save a lot), and split their document into smaller files using a master document. For every OpenOffice bug that caused corruption of the file I can think of several occasions where MS Office destroyed everything. I don't trust OpenOffice that much, but I certainly trust MS Office less.