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Free?? "But is it good?"
Thrasher:
I use it - does what it says on the tin. But then .. I also use Linux as well.
As of tomorrow our office goes Linux for the servers too - goodbye Mr Gates, goodbye W2K3 and all your bloated server problems. Hello money saving and a server package with no requirement for a state of the art gfx card! :)
SteveGoodz:
I've got OpenOffice on my Linux box. Great software - does everything MS Office does ... quicker and with less demands on processor or graphics. You can also save documents, spreadsheets, etc. in MS formats so that others can read them.
Unfortunately, I still use MS Office too :x
baz2236:
I use open office on my linux system at it works great. once you get use to it you will never look back.
thermidorthelobster:
I've used it (in the guise of NeoOffice) on the Mac, but I found it was a bit slow compared to M$. I think this is probably because it's not natively written to support the Mac GUI.
carbore:
Hi,
I evaluated it and found it to be excelent, it has some nice extras like built in PDF creation and it can save in MS format so no problems with sharing stuff.
The only thing that held ME back is that Im a bit of an Excel Power user and very famillier with it as i use it everyday. Therefore the hit in productivity was not worth it as I already had a pukka copy of excel.
If i was setting up a business on my own from scratch I would Definitely use it rather than for out for MS office (productivity aside). Id also think about adopting it across a business for multiple staff as most people only use excel to do tables and maths! The word equiv etc are fine (better than fine!)
Im not anti MS but in a world where we are starting to get cross about the fact that Tescos is so dominant, I find it sad that there is less choice in software than when I were a lad (remember Lotus 123 and word star anyone!) Open source is amazing I am now using a Open source CMS that is as good as a commercial one I used to resell for about £30,000!!!!
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