New OpenOffice.org-Based Office Suite

Voidhobo writes: "SOT, a Linux-distributor from the home-country of Linux, is offering SOT Office, a free productivity suite partly based on OpenOffice, for Linux and Windows. According to SOT, it is the only office application you will ever need, as it is fully compatible with MS Office and StarOffice." OpenOffice is great, so I hope their claims have merit.

question

[Dr Kool, PhD]

Does Open Office have that talking paperclip dude?? If not then it's just a cheap immitation.

And for *really* dumb users...

[Anonymous Coward]

you also need a cute animated ant on the paperclip dude shoulder to help you with the paperclip dude.

Unfortunate naming.

[aussersterne]

Is it just me, or is this going to sound like "Sod Office" in casual speech?

Re:question

[kraf]

I don't get it why people are so harsh on the paperclip.
You can change it to a cute little doggie !
The doggie has helped me lot in my productivity and in making my desktop frendlier.

Re:question

[Anonymous Coward]

And what do you use for a desktop? A fire hydrant?

Re:Too much wordiness repeating uneeded words

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, I want my office suite to do that too!

Re:Too much wordiness repeating uneeded words

[Error27]

You are obsolutely correct of course, but I say if he spends all his time impersonating CmdrTaco then he's already far too lame to worry about little things like bad prose.

Re:question

[cscx]

Y'know, I always thought that MS Agent (the API that brings you all the talking characters) could use a BOFH character.

"Save there again and that's the last time you open THAT document."

"I've taken the liberty of password protecting all your Word documents with a random alphanumeric password. If you can't hack in to your own documents than you shouldn't be using Office in the first place...."

Odd acronyms

[steveha]

SOT is a little odd, but the one that got me was Bunch of Helpful Fixes (BOHF). When I saw BOHF I immediately thought "Bastard Operator from Hell".

Maybe the first BOHF will add Back Orifice functionality to SOT Office, so you can take over all the MS boxes on your net. And an exuses database.

steveha

Re:Too much competition

[Anonymous Coward]

People use MS Office because they know sending a co-worker a PowerPoint presentation or an Excel spreadsheet will not cause any compatibility issues, because it is a fair assumption that this person also has MS Office.

You haven't used MS Office very much, have you?

Why the hell is parent offtopic?

[popeyethesailor]

The link leads to a legit website, and this article is about OpenOffice.
Please read the posts before you moderate.

Re:Odd acronyms

[Stephen VanDahm]

"When I saw BOHF I immediately thought "Bastard Operator from Hell.'"

Bastard Operator Harassment of Finland. For starters, the minimum system requirements call for 64 MB more RAM than you have, regardless of how much RAM you have. And they have a talking paperclip that, rather than trying to help you, tells you to RTFM, which is, of course, written in Russian. This product is exciting news, because in spite of everything, it's still more cost effective and easier to use than MS Office.