[Leaplist] MS Office vs. OpenOffice -- Guys, get your *FACTS* straight (and stop marketing for Microsoft) ...

[Austin Denyer (Ozz)]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:37:45 -0500, "Bryan J. Smith"
<thebs413 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why not use Evolution to connect to Exchange?

I tried Evolution for quite some time, and gave up on it.  Memory usage
grew exponentially with message size.  I had a web server log e-mailed
to me that took forever to load and almost crashed my workstation due to
memory usage - and my box had 2 gigs of RAM and 4 gigs of swap!

The same e-mail in Thunderbird opens in seconds, with relatively little
memory overhead.  Personally, I still prefer Sylpheed...

But then again, I'm not aware of any way to connect either of them to
Exchange.  For that, you do need Evolution...
 
> > As far as Word, Presentation, and even Frontpage are concerned,
> 
> StarImpress kicked PowerPoint's ass over 10 years ago.  It's the main
> reason I started using StarOffice 3.0 back then.  I was an Ami Pro
> user (which Lotus killed, long story), and preferred 1-2-3 over Excel.

I agree there.  1-2-3 was the best spreadsheet ever.  And the macro
language rocked.

Trivia: how many of you remember Lotus Improv?  A new concept of
spreadsheet design that was so way ahead of it's time that no-one
appreciated it's power...

Regards,
Ozz.
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