koffice || openoffice

[wallace1819]

I'm trying to descide weather to go with kofice or openoffice within a kde desktop enviroment. This enviroment has intermediate users who need basic word processing, spreadsheet and presentation (ie. power point'ish) needs.

anynone like to throw their $.02 in?

What are the advantages/disadvantages in terms of
speed
flexability
stability
combatibility with M$ office files

thx for the input,
Wallace

[TheWart]

I would be interested to see what people have to say about this, as I am in a similar situation.
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[Stu L Tissimus]

Speed: Koffice, but it's not that big of a difference
Flexability: Both aren't great with plugins, unfortunately.
Stability: OOo
combatibility with M$ office files: OOo

I recommend Ximian OpenOffice (looks a lot better), but also get AbiWord.
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[gentooalex]

try abiword(it doesnt seem to highlight selected segments of text though--so its hard to highlight and cut words) or staroffice . staroffice isnt open source but version 7 will be free for students and teachers. i dont think you need to prove that you are a teacher or a student.

[shm]

What are the advantages/disadvantages in terms of
speed - koffice by far
flexability - openoffice
stability - openoffice
combatibility with M$ office files - openoffice by far
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[telex4]

I think it comes down to some pretty different factors, personally.

First off, what kind of stuff will they be doing with the office apps? OpenOffice is far more advanced, so check if KOffice can actually satisfy their needs.

Secondly, will the users be in KDE? If so, integration with the rest of the desktop, especially for intermediate users, is a really big feature. That, and KDE apps generally look and feel so much nicer than OpenOffice.

Finally, will the users be loading and closing the apps a lot? If so, OpenOffice can really crawl. Then again, if they're going to keep a session open all the time, that's not a factor.

I would side with KOffice, unless you find it is insufficient in terms of features and MS compatability. Personally, I only ever use OpenOffice to open MS Word docs that use lots of text boxes and other crazy formatting.

[fourwood]

[GenKreton]

I have used all of them before and I HIGHLY suggest abiword. It is compatible with M$. Overall I like the looks of abi better and many of hte features. Not only does it seem to have more to offer it's faster. Gnumeric is a great spreadsheetprogram as well. I still have OO laying around for presentations (powerpoint) though.

But I am also biased and have never really liked anything KDE...too bloated slow and ugly for me.

[cryos]

I have recently used both for quite a while. I was actually leaning towards koffice until openoffice 1.1 - now I think openoffice really does have the overall edge. I have also tried using gnome for a month but I think I am going back to KDE now...

Openoffice 1.1 final is such a massive improvement in terms of speed, footprint and stability. M$ Office compatibility is massively improved too in most cases although Ximian Openoffice 1.1 seems to have some of it's own problems and I find vanilla Openoffice much more reliable and functional right now.

You can't beat kile for producing some beautifully edited LaTeX docs though Abiword I don't like so much, but I am going to give it another go after the recent version bump. Also thought I would see if Gnome 2.4 is improved at all...

[maor]

by funcionality OO still better than koffice, but if koffice satisfied use koffice otherwise use OO .

OT: there is a project of integration OO in kde check this
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/cuckooo/