Today, I read an article by Dana Blankenhorn posted over on Zdnet asking readers if there was room for two open source office suites. Well, I have to say the answer for me is, yes.
I use Microsoft Office daily. I use hosted exchange for push email and it works great with my Treo 700WX. Every once in a while, while creating a presentation or spreadsheet, I like a little bit of change. I switch over to OpenOffice from time-to-time and now I can utilize IBM Lotus Symphony.
I will say, it took almost an hour to download the ~200meg package from IBM and during the install I received 2 errors but, everything seems to be running fine. The program itself is a little bit slow to start and I have a pretty beefy laptop using Vista (Mac fans don’t flame me, I know you rule the world and I bow to your greatness).
Anyway, back on the topic of IBM Lotus Symphony versus OpenOffice.org. I think there is plenty of room for both in the market and I will continue to use them both. As for which is better in certain situations, stay tuned for future posts here and please leave a comment with your own findings.
