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OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps
jammag writes "Both OpenOffice and Google Apps are free, so the choice is purely down to which is better. Bruce Byfield, after looking at both, concluded, 'comparing Google Apps to OpenOffice.org is like clubbing a staked-out bunny — Google Apps is so far behind that the whole exercise seems like an exercise in pointless cruelty.' Ouch, that hurts."
After all, they are still in Beta. :)
We have always been at war with Eurasia!
Google Apps are a new paradigm in software, having commonly used applications entirely on a server so that multiple users can use them. I think we'll see this on par with Open Office when it becomes more popular.
Those poor bastards, they have us surrounded. Now we can fire at them in all directions!
I eagerly followed the link in summary hoping to see some good bunny staking pictures or even bunnies clubbing a steak (for tenderness?), but NOOOO, I get some article about Google and OpenOffice. Seriously, who came up with the term "clubbing a staked-out bunny"? Who EVER says that?
Is this a reference to some Simpson's episode (w. Natalie Portman doing voice overs) that I missed?
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but... what if you need help typing a letter? Google Apps provides no such paper clip to help... you are screwed.
- Your stupidity got you into this mess, why can't it get you out? -Will Rogers
-when we'll be comparing novels to text messaging.
sudo ergo sum
A woman will appreciate some tulips if you give them to her.
But she will hit you over the head if you give her a bag of oranges.
But you can eat the oranges or make juice with them.
You can't do that with tulips. The only thing they're good for is giving them to women.
Ergo, women make no sense.
Is it just me or are office apps becoming increasingly unimportant.
Ten years ago I spent most of my computing time in some kind of office app. Now I rarely use them. And I receive fewer office documents via email.
Sorry that you lost your job...I'm sure you'll find another once the recession is done.
What a lame comparison. Open Office is a huge (as in bloated) and slow software suite that makes me cry when I have to use it for something serious. I prefer to use Koffice even though it lacks some features I'd like. The fact that using MS Excel on a VM on my linux machine is several orders more productive than running OO natively, should be a good indication. Notice I did not mention MS Word and "productive" in the same sentence, for Word processing I resort to Abiword (or Kword if I want more DTP style). /.: PS3 vs MAME, MS Flight Simulator vs Hot air Balloons, Mars Rover vs RAV4.
So, in summary, OO compares (IMO) badly to its real competitors. Google Apps are a whole different paradigm, targeting completely different usage scenarios. It is not either Google or OO (or Koffice etc). You first decide if your needs require web or local applications and then you decide among the available software for the platform. The web apps will probably never have the same feature set as the local apps for probably good reasons.
Lame, lame article.
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If you believe that you're the stupidest person in the history of the universe.
store the documents where I can access them whenever I like.
Except when Google decides they'll be down for a day. "Didn't you know we were in Beta? Sorry, you're out of luck."
Why bother when you can just use emacs?
Don't you think you're overstating it a bit? That seems like a perfectly reasonable belief to me.
No. That's just Hotmail for small businesses.
Because Microsoft's applications do something that most of the alternatives don't - integrate with each other.
And , more precisely , only integrate with each other :-)
Slipping shoelaces ?
Jesus Christ. You want to use BugZilla for *anything*? Masochists...