Re: [libreoffice-users] brief mention of LO in an article about Office 365 vs. Google Apps

I am not sure the writer knows what they are talking about. One can 
describe office suites, whether local or cloud, as light, medium, and 
heavy. The light ones (Abiword) try to cover the major functionality 
required by users for modest documents but deliberately omit features 
many features. Light applications are often best suited for home and 
very small office users. Medium have more features but try to avoid 
having the very rare features that only a very few users will ever need 
or use. I think LO and AOO strive to be here, relatively feature rich 
without the many of the very rarely used features. Medium applications 
try to hit the sweet of excellent performance with a fairly rich feature 
set. Medium applications can be used by a large majority of users. Heavy 
applications have all the features included even if this sometimes hurts 
overall usability and performance. MS Office is best known heavy office 
suite.

Also, some zdnet.com writers tend to shill for MS and will not admit 
that users are in the best position to judge their needs and often a 
non-MS solution is the overall best solution.

Jay
On 03/12/2014 09:34 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/is-office-365-worth-spending-3x-more-than-on-google-apps-7000027225/ 
>
>
> Is Office 365 worth spending 3x more than on Google Apps?
>
> Summary: Office 365 is three times the cost of Google Apps. It's worth 
> it -- but probably not for the reason you expect...
>
> By Matt Baxter-Reynolds
>
> :quote:
>
> Continuum
>
> Office's competition has always been products that have tried to 
> emulate Office's enormous bulk -- think LibreOffice in particular. 
> Google Docs doesn't try to do that at all. It's a very minimal product.
>
> We know that Office is enormous. There is nothing that the entire 
> product suite can't do. People often complain about it's labyrinthine 
> complexity. Another way to look at that is that Microsoft has actually 
> done a skilled job in masking that complexity. There's enough in there 
> to drive even the most ardent power user crazy.
>
> :unquote:
>
> Here is my question - are we trying to emulate MSO's "enormous bulk" 
> [of options]?  I hope it is not though of as the bulk of hard drive 
> space needed to install MSO vs. LO.
>
> I know that LO will not spend money on the server costs for a "cloud" 
> based version of LO hosted by LO, but it was an interesting read that 
> may be reflected into the development of LO for Android devices.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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