Any ever use FREE OPEN OFFICE.ORG

[Little6pack]

Any ever use FREE OPEN OFFICE.ORG by Oracle for your PC platform.

I hate microsoft trying to charge you to use thier products

 

[1quick6]

It's a great product. We use it at work as well since it was cost prohibitive to buy M$ Office.

 

[klrv6]

Is it openoffice.org you are talking about or the oracle version?
Open Office: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite

OR

Oracles Open Office: Oracle Open Office | Applications | Oracle

Funny Story about open office.
The original open office was spawned out of Sun Micro Systems. Microsoft was working with a European development company to help with Office 2000. This company had some shared rights to the backend code for Office 2000. Sun buys this European company just so they can polish the code and put a front end on it. Now, the first real competitor to MSFT's Office product is free to download and use from Sun's web site. The code is released to the public and several variants have emerged from it. IBM pushes it with their email product as a way for companies to not have to pay msft.

NO, it does not do everything that office does. I lose most of users formatting and data when I try to launch .xls files in it. The 10% of stupid files shouldn't have a problem. I'd switch my users to it but, they would want me to correct all the problems with their documents when they break.

"I hate microsoft trying to charge you to use their products " Uh, take a look at Oracles pricing for software.... The last Oracle system I built was $1.8M just for the licenses and that didn't include the $330K for yearly support.

 

[Pronto]

Yes I use it. Pretty straight forward. Any files you would use it would work fine with.

 

[85Dan85TType]

I use it and love it. There are some small changes to syntax and things like that for the spreadsheet program (; instead of , in places).

I expected there to be bigger changes to it when Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems, but I haven't seen anything big yet.

Actually, I keep meaning to get a computer running on their open source OS; just haven't gotten around to it.

 

[Madcat455]

I use it on my Linux machines... came with the OS. Very nice, no issues with compatibility... some differences with computations in "excel", but nothing that can't be gotten used to.

 

[Quiky One]

College forced me to use. Couldn't wait to get out of that class. Openoffice sucked for me...never did like it.

Jason