57 different office applications
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| Sander_Marechal Jun 12, 2009 7:45 PM EDT |
There's plenty of choice. Over at Officeshots.org we now have 57 listed office applications that support ODF (though many still lack an interface to Officeshots.org). There are a bunch of duplicates in there. For example, Word, Excel and Powerpoint are counted separately, and there are some with multiple implementations (i.e. OpenOffice.org v.s. Go-OO, and three different MS-Office ODF implementations. Native, Sun plugin and ClearAge plugin) but it's still a long list with many applications I've never heared of before. |
| caitlyn Jun 12, 2009 10:33 PM EDT |
For most people and most businesses OpenOffice.org is a perfectly good drop in replacement for MS Office. For all but large, very complex documents it does a good job both reading and writing MS Office documents. For those who think that any level of incompatability rules out such a transition I'll remind you that WordStar, WordPerfect, and Lotus 1-2-3 had larger market shares than Microsoft does now. In the case of WordStar it was something like 96%. |
| Bob_Robertson Jun 13, 2009 6:00 PM EDT |
The "gorilla in the room" I saw when the whole Peter Quinn, CTO Massachusetts, thing happened, was that they were concerned about being able to access their old documents. Records retention, that is. Under Microsoft, it's been a nightmare. Successive Word versions could not read all the earlier versions. They realized that they should not be storing things long term in .DOC files. ODF solved that problem. PDF helps a lot, I'm sure, since it's not like historical documents need to be changed, just accessed. But I think PDF was still proprietary at that time. |
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