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My experience with StarOffice
Ok, now, this may be completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but since OO.org was spun off from StarOffice a few years back, I wanted to share my own experiences with StarOffice from approximately 3 years ago in college.

I was using StarOffice on a Sun Solaris machine to do some simple spreadsheet work: for a pair of 32000 data points, graph the data. That is, I had 32000 rows of data, two columns per row.

Then I created a graph. The machine took about two minutes to draw the graph. The application was using 500 MB of virtual memory. The file took several minutes to save and then to open. Ridiculous.

Then I went to my Windows machine and opened Excel and did the same thing. Nearly-instantaneous graph drawing. <20 MB virtual memory used. Fast save and open.

Now, I'm sure things have changed quite a bit from those days. But that's what's in my mind whenever I read about OpenOffice and Open<ocument.
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Credit where due  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Good question  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/25/06
Come on John, try to make an argument here. Or is your last name really  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Learn to read...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 05/25/06
Agreed  nucrash | 05/25/06
Story has been updated to link to me  georgeou | 05/26/06
This is such rubbish  mosborne | 05/26/06
What annoyed me about George's test...  bportlock | 05/27/06
Atypical tests  INGOTIAN | 05/29/06
M$ criminal lies & FUD  Linux Geek | 05/25/06
To Microsoft: Vista is too slow.  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
What exactly (with a GUI) is swift on the recommended minimums  JoeMama_z | 05/25/06
Yes MS thinks the speed of ODF is important, but want you to overlook Vista  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
eh who's to say....  JoeMama_z | 05/25/06
save/load time  Scott W | 05/27/06
Lier !!  not of this world | 05/25/06
The key word is "optimized". I am sure that the performance of reading and  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Well-known  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Sounds more like MS used a trick implementation to make it faster, the same  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
You misunderstand  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
Well, in any regard, sounds to me like an implementation trick, NOT a file  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
You are more cracked than Mike Cox  nucrash | 05/25/06
And, again, tell us how the file format can make for faster load and save  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
ODF is a relatively pure XML implementation Microsoft XML is not.  stevey_d | 05/27/06
MS is really strugling to describe what is wrong with ODF. Funny to listen  DonnieBoy | 05/25/06
Ask me a hard one  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
LMAO  enduser_z | 05/25/06
Bad word files too  maxo_z | 05/25/06
I think I said that  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/25/06
My experience with StarOffice  PB_z | 05/25/06
Slow graphs in OOo  johnay | 05/26/06
Yes but OpenOffice isn't the only tool using ODF  stevey_d | 05/27/06
Wasn't talking about large files, or Excel.  johnay | 05/30/06
Perhaps you should  Update victim | 05/26/06
But it was at the same age level as ODF. (NT)  Update victim | 05/26/06
About a million years ago  specialk_z | 05/25/06
What we suspected from George in the very beginning...  Richard Flude | 05/25/06
This is a load of bull.  DemonX | 05/25/06
George's specialty: Irrelevant statistics  Chad_z | 05/26/06
OO2 is slow with large files  stevey_d | 05/27/06
And another thing.  DemonX | 05/25/06
Didn't they also say Open Source was a Cancer??? (nt)  Plain Logic | 05/25/06
MSFT references George Ou "research"  Chad_z | 05/26/06
Its JUST a format  Roger Ramjet | 05/26/06
There are those who will and those who won't  fwood_4@... | 05/26/06
well I like microsoft office, but this isn't doing microsoft any favours  stevey_d | 05/27/06
To each their own  Boot_Agnostic | 05/27/06
A format can't be slow  Mechano | 05/28/06
A FORMAT CAN BE SLOW  zdnet@... | 05/29/06
I don't buy it  fireball74 | 05/29/06
Buy it.  dave.leigh@... | 05/29/06
asn.1 and binary xml  stevey_d | 05/29/06
And MS software is the epitome of speed and efficiency?  INGOTIAN | 05/29/06
Pot calling the kettle black...  Ratzmandious | 05/29/06
Too slow?  code_flogger | 05/29/06
Who is Microsoft kidding?!  Leria | 05/29/06
OpenDocument is NOT an application  jdeisenberg | 05/30/06
An application can make something run slow  Boot_Agnostic | 05/31/06
ODF is just as fast as MS's offering.  libertyaikido | 06/01/06

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