OpenOffice Bloated? 941
cygnusx writes "ZDNet's George Ou has been writing a series of posts about Open Office bloat. Includes some interesting system usage comparisons" From the article: "Even when dealing with what is essentially the same data, OpenOffice Calc uses up 211 MBs of private unsharable memory while Excel uses up 34 MBs of private unsharable memory. The fact that OpenOffice.org Calc takes about 100 times the CPU time explains the kind of drastic results we were getting where Excel could open a file in 2 seconds while Calc would take almost 3 minutes. Most of that massive speed difference is due to XML being very processor intensive, but Microsoft still handles its own XML files about 7 times faster than OpenOffice.org handles OpenDocument ODS format and uses far less memory than OpenOffice.org."
MS Office set the benchmark for bloat (Score:1, Funny)
Testament to Open Source Software Developers (Score:5, Funny)
I'll bet (Score:3, Funny)
Bloat? Don't talk to me about bloat... (Score:5, Funny)
- vi is a bloated version of ex
- EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes and Continually Swapping
- Sometimes I just telnet to port 80 instead of using a browser
I have compiled OpenOffice from scratch... took a while!Re:Consider the Source (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Consider the Source (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Essentially" the same data? (Score:3, Funny)
But I'll admit to beeing too lazy to actually find out for myself.
Re:Testament to Open Source Software Developers (Score:5, Funny)
A quick check with Google shows only one hit, on a page full of Baynesian Babble.
Re:Consider the Source (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So why isn't it more popular? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bloat? Don't talk to me about bloat... (Score:5, Funny)
I realise you're trying to make a statement with all your telnet to port 80 instead of using a browser and such, but I think you should at least have used a compiler to build OpenOffice.
Productive Time (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Consider the Source (Score:2, Funny)
This post is the oldest logical fallacy in the book: Argumentum ad Hominem
Ad hominem [wikipedia.org] (latin: argument to the man) is perhaps the second oldest logical fallacy. The oldest, and still the best, will always be argumentam ad baculum [wikipedia.org] (latin: argument with a stick). Regrettably, the advent of the internet as a medium for argument has rendered this time-honored technique somewhat less practical than it used to be, but I'm sure a creative debator could still find a way to employ it.
Re:Disable Java option... (Score:3, Funny)
The Sun Microsystems Logo?
Re:"Essentially" the same data? (Score:5, Funny)
"It is a known problem that OOo takes a while to start. Staroffice (at the point when Sun bought it) was made by a German company. Most of the internal functions are named in german, and use abbreviations that are not obvious."
While I understand that you were not trying to be an open source apologist, this statement is the epitomy of the frustration that many mainstream users have with open source:
Office worker: "why does Open Office take so long to load?"
IT guy: "That's because the routines were written by a German guy in his free time. I'm sorry, little-miss-everybody-should-speak-English, but this poor guy was working for free. What do you expect?"
Office worker: "what does the German language have to do with this?"
IT guy: "Your PC was built in Austin, Texas. German is its second language. See this routine here, öffnenSiediegroßeAkte()? Your American PC doesn't know what that means, and has to consult a dictionary each time it sees it. There's a group of teenagers translating it into English. They work on one word each for greater safety. One of them saw two words of the program and spent several weeks in the hospital."
Office worker: "So, what do I do about it?"
IT guy: "Have a little more tolerance for the global community in which we live, and worship the holy light of open source that's shining out of Richard Stallman's ass. Oh, and consider dying your hair blond, adopting a schnauzer, and carrying a riding crop. Open Office seems to like that."
Office worker: "Dork."
If this continues, I think it will inevetably lead to new ad campaigns like:
Microsoft Office: We won't coerce you into adopting a schnauzer!
Re:Consider the Source (Score:3, Funny)
Gate's Law: The speed of software will halve every 18 months.
It's open source!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Call a Spade a Spade (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Essentially" the same data? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"Essentially" the same data? (Score:2, Funny)