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OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps

Posted by timothy on from the google-apps-works-pretty-well-for-me dept.

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."

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  1. Re:"clubbing a staked-out bunny"? by Daffy+Duck · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go back further, young whippersnapper. "Upper Class Twit of the Year Show."

  2. Re:Depends.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.alfresco.com/

  3. Re:Depends.. by vbraga · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are plugins for this. OOoSVN comes to mind.

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  4. Re:Google integration? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

  5. Text message novels by AlpineR · · Score: 2, Informative

    Keitai shosetsu

  6. Re:Depends.. by AVryhof · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

    Works with Google Docs, Zoho, and WebDAV.

    It's like Sharepoint and Live Office in one.

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  7. Re:Depends.. by chris_mahan · · Score: 2, Informative

    I personally use google docs for all the little stuff I need done.

    For the complex documents with all the bells and whistles, I use lyx. It's based on TeX/LaTeX and does a great job at complex stuff.

    The live collaboration (and revision history) of google docs is very very useful.

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  8. Re:What needs to be discussed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I know google isn't deleting it.
    I had a document in google docs, I "deleted" it and it no longer shows in google docs, but I can still access it, update it and see it in my iGoogle widget.

  9. Re:An answer to SharePoint! by lennier · · Score: 2, Informative

    "That's what CORBA and KParts are for."

    And CORBA appears to have flamed out and died entirely. The latest GNOME releases are ditching it for D-Bus. KParts of course isn't interoperable with anything outside of KDE.

    What do you call an 'interoperable' specification which only has one implementation?

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  10. Re:Depends.. by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Open Office developers should build an API which allows browser based applications to integrate seamlessly in a Sharepoint style with Open Office, the world does not need another cms or wiki but OO does need a way to fend off Sharepoint + Office integration.

    That API already exists - it's called CMIS. Now if OO.org uses it, they could integrate with anything that supports it (including, as I understand, SharePoint).