[plug] Word97 vs Openoffice

[Brad Campbell]

Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen OO take this long since the days of running a Athlon 800
> with 128mb RAM on Debian Woody/KDE3.1 with OO.o 1.0.1 or something
> similar.
> 
> On my current setup (celery 1.7 with 256mb DDR 845oe Max2 mobo with
> ~7krpm Seagates, Triplex Radeon 9200 agp card) running Debian sid with
> OO.o 1.1.2 most documents load instantly but anything greater than 60
> pages with inserted images takes about 3-4 seconds.
> 
> I'm not using the oo.o quick start or anything like that and it doesn't
> seem particularly taxing on my RAM.
> 

I'm running it on a 1GHz P-III Laptop with a 4200rpm 80GB hard disk and 512MB of ram with quite a 
lot of other stuff open.
Hard disk latency is quite high on this machine and I currently have ~400mb of stuff in swap (2.4 
kernel)

> 
>>Unfortunately for these documents I *have* to use Word as I need to be able to save the document in 
>>a format the guys in the office in Perth can use (Word 2000) and Ooo munges the Indexing to a point 
>>Word just chokes.
>>
> 
> Get them to install OO.o
> 

You are obviously not familiar with some corporate cultures and their attitude toward anything that 
might make them realise they just blew $$ on 50 full licenses for Office2k. Not only that, but these 
people actively resist change.
We trialled Open Office v1 when it first released and it was thrown out within 5 days due to a 
couple of dinosaurs not wanting to change or learn anything that is Non-Microsoft. Yet these are the 
same people that bitch and moan when hitches with the roaming profile process between win2k and 
win2k server deletes the last 3 months history from Outlook and complain about lost productivity 
when Blaster took out the Office for 36 hours.

I have given up trying to change them. I just do what I need to do (and in this case it's run 
Word97). I also need to run Win4Lin to be able to run IE to access the company accounting software. 
No it won't run under crossover as it uses parts of IE that just lock crossover solid. Yes I have 
reported the bugs to Codeweavers.

Roll on qemu supprting win2k properly!

Brad