Software SmackDown: SoftMaker Comes Out on Top
Jul 06, 2009, 21:02 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andy Updegrove)
"WordPerfect aside, most of these offerings disappoint when it
comes to round tripping documents with Office users, although many
provide perfectly fine alternatives for stand-alone use,
particularly by those that don't need to create the most complex
business document.
"The funny thing is, though, that the quality of the result, and
even the ability to interoperate in a world dominated by
Microsoft's Office, doesn't necessarily equate to the depth of the
resources of the developer. Now isn't that an interesting
observation?
"That's the lesson of a product comparison posted a week ago at
InfoWorld by Randall C. Kennedy. In that article, Kennedy describes
the "torture test" he used to evaluate two office suites: the one
developed by SoftMaker, and the much better known offering of
OpenOffice.org. You may be surprised to learn that Kennedy scores
the SoftMaker suite highest. Most intriguingly, Kennedy concludes
that SoftMaker cleans OOo's clock when it comes to the hardly
insignificant or difficult task of playing nicely with that Other
Suite that so many people around the world use."
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