'''OpenOffice''' is a great OpenSource alternative to MS-Office, highly compatible, and using documented open document formats.

[MHo] is using '''OpenOffice''' for as long as he can think (beginning with '''StarOffice for MSDOS'''...) and hardely ever had problems with it.

One thing that could have been made better: OpenOffice is using a [Basic] dialect for programming. It seems to me that people have fun allways reinventing the wheels ;-) Why didn't they use [tcl], ready for embedding in every application as it's perfect macro language?

But the situation of OpenOffice seems to be comparable with [tcl]'s: the bosses responsible for buying software tend to prefer Microsoft Office as they tend to ignore [tcl] ("tcl? what's that? never heard... let use use some 20 Gig compilers and runtimes with 10.000 dll's... and better let us use some Microsoft tools because the other one's are sometimes buggy..." - hahahahaha).

Time for a better marketing, I think!

'''Some Links:'''

   * http://www.openoffice.org
   * http://de.openoffice.org