1. Performance and Memory footprint
Winner: Office2007
Desc: Opening Excel, Word and Access files takes normally 50% less that with Office2007. And the memory used on all of the OO components is normally also arpound the double that Office 2007.
This is specially true when opening large Excel files, where we can have a relation of 1 to 3 in favour of Office
Source:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=480
2. Programs contained on the office suite:
Winner: Office2007
Desc:
a. OO does not contain a mail or calendar solution.
b. The rest of OO and Office2007 is more or less comparable. OpenOffice Base = Access, PowerPoint = Impress. Visio = Draw
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
3. Running on old, less powerfull, machines
Winner: OpenOffice
Desc: OpenOffice runs better on old computers, with less RAM, and less CPU power. OO runs on a Pentium 166 with only 129 Mb and runs also over Windows98 and Linux.
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
4. Templates differences
Winner: Office2007
Desc: Some people use a lot of Office Templates. Altought it seems possible to use templates between OpenOffice and Office2007 some adaptation work must be done in most cases. Less changes should be need if migrating from Office2000 to Office2007.
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
5. File formats compatibility
Winner: Office2007
Desc: Both office suites can save to many file formats. But .doc and .xls are more or less standards, and OpenOffice uses his own file formats. Its possible to use these file formats as standards to Save in OO, but this is not standard behaviour.
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
6. Macro support in Word and Excel
Winner: Office2007
Desc: Many Excel files have Macro that do complex stuff over them. Altough OO should support easily most of it, there can be issues with the more complex of them.
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
7. Comparing Office2007 applications witn OpenOffice 2.2 applications
Winner: Office2007, altough some less demanding users could be satisfied with OO
Desc: See above link, please
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
8. Cross-Platforming
Winner: OpenOffice
Desc: OpenOffice can run over MacOSX, Linux and Windows.., Office2007 is a Windows only solution.
Source:
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/software/page4765.cfm
9. Support Burden over IT staff
Winner: Office2007
Desc: During the last decades many users have build many know-how over Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Access. All this knowledge could be “zeroed” if a change to OpenOffice is done. And the IT support staff won´t have knowledge over OO, also.
Post Scriptum:
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