On GameSpot: Get ready for the Best of 2009 Awards!
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
TalkBack 9 of 33:
Next »
« Previous
My own experience
I joined the open office community a few (10?) years back when Oo came out. I was a HP-UX sysadmin, and no one was doing a port (STILL no one . . .), so I joined and tried doing it myself. The code had all sorts of nasty surprises - like specific hardware routines for PC floppy drives, and other oddities that were impossible to back port. I got maybe 75% complete before I couldn't go any further.

Oo was KEY to avoiding the Windoze takeover of the (UNIX) workstation. Engineers (at FORD) didn't like having 2 computers on their desks - an UNIX workstation and a PC (for OA tasks). If there were a way to OA in the UNIX workstations, they would have gone for it. As I gave up on Oo for HP-UX, HP gave up on UNIX workstations.

Sun PROMISED to make Oo 2.0 ALL Java-based - so it would run on all platforms. That obviously didn't happen. I am not sure what the code looks like today, but it isn't the pillar of great code design that some think it is.
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 01/12/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Reply to Story Reply to Message

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

Is OpenOffice a 'dying horse'?  kozmcrae | 01/12/09
Open Office making strides on MSOffice  rcbarr83@... | 01/13/09
Open office is number two office  hamobu | 01/12/09
Who owns it when Sun sells out?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/12/09
bullrot  Kaiwai | 01/12/09
Bull?  swampcat@... | 01/13/09
Sun leaving it alone....  storm14k | 01/12/09
I used to use Open Office Writer  DonRupertBitByte | 01/12/09
My own experience  Roger Ramjet | 01/12/09
More bullcrap  Kaiwai | 01/12/09
Actually...  John L. Ries | 01/12/09
It was never a "living horse" to begin with (NT)  PB_z | 01/12/09
Nope, it's just software  IT_User | 01/12/09
Lack of an email program  Maarek | 01/12/09
Evolution devil  Linux User 147560 | 01/12/09
Cant use that if you are a Christian...  deaf_e_kate | 01/12/09
Good thing I am not religious at all then! devil  Linux User 147560 | 01/12/09
Christians can believe in evolution  brad@... | 01/13/09
Something of a correction here:  TtfnJohn | 01/18/09
ntlvm2  bcmoore87 | 01/12/09
I honestly cannot answer that question  Linux User 147560 | 01/12/09
See? Even the most die hard Linux nut  markbn | 01/13/09
Ya know...  Linux User 147560 | 01/14/09
RE: Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?  Loverock Davidson | 01/12/09
You know all that stuff (flotsam) that floats up when a ship sinks?  kozmcrae | 01/12/09
Meeks Needs to Make Up His Mind  LinuxScribe | 01/12/09
What meeks wants  Kaiwai | 01/12/09
RE: Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?  PapaJimbo | 01/13/09
Years ago Sun bought StarOffice to beat Microsoft with  softwareFlunky | 01/13/09
Slow and unweildy  tBuggR | 01/13/09
OO or WordPerfect anything but MSO  gaelicfog@... | 01/13/09
RE: Is OpenOffice.org a 'dying horse'?  chromeronin | 01/13/09
Seriously... Do you think things all the way through?  Wolfie2K3 | 01/13/09

What do you think?

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

advertisement
advertisement

SmartPlanet

Click Here