[Ti] OT - Open Office

[Joe McDaniel]

The MS Office Suite comes with Word, Excel, Entourage, and Powerpoint.  What 
does Appleworks have as far as Entourage and Powerpoint?  Is the solution to 
the mail software... Mail?

Joe Mac



>From: Chris Olson <chris at mercury1.astcomm.net>
>Reply-To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>To: "PowerBook G4 Titanium List" <Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: Re: [Ti] OT - Open Office
>Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:48:23 -0600
>
>On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Chris Reinhart wrote:
>
>>Sorry if this has been covered here already but I'm looking for advice, 
>>opinions, likes/dislikes regarding openoffice?
>>We are looking for alternatives to microsoft's expensive office suite to 
>>install on our client ibooks.
>
>OpenOffice is fine for most simple word processing and spreadsheet tasks.  
>However, it won't properly format Word documents with images or tables, it 
>doesn't support the same fonts as MS Office in either spreadsheets or word 
>processing documents (so formatting will be lost when importing docs), the 
>UI positively sucks, and it is quite slow.  Personally, I would not deploy 
>it in a production environment, but it is OK for casual use as long as the 
>user understands it's limitations.  In production environments there is 
>also the liability issue with no support from a commercial company in the 
>instance that a security issue, or some other critical issue, would be 
>discovered with it.
>
>IMHO, AppleWorks is a better (than OO.org), and more economical alternative 
>to MS Office X, providing a slightly better level of Office compatibility 
>(compared to OO.org), and having the advantage of full support from a 
>commercial company.  There are usually two issues with Office substitute 
>software - how compatible is it with Office formats, and cost.  In this 
>instance you get what you pay for - OO.org is free offering the lowest 
>level of compatibility, AppleWorks costs considerably less than MS Office 
>($79) but provides more functionality for the office user, and finally, MS 
>Office itself is expensive, but is a top-notch office suite that actually 
>surpasses it's Windows sister applications in features and ease-of-use.
>
>I have some example documents generated with Windows 2000 and Office 2000 
>that I can send you to try in the various office suites so you can see for 
>yourself how they compare.
>--
>Chris
>
>
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