[mdlug] Open Office failures

[Dan DeSloover]

I've been using Open Office Draw as a Visio replacement, and it isn't half
bad. Certainly better than Kivio or Dia. It could use some refinement, but
it's the best I have on my Linux systems.

David Lane wrote:
> I will look at that.
>
> I'm a fan of compiling to binary.
>
> Some of the backgound resources in Education Admin Systems (Datatel) have
> Java elements that bog down the servers and the hardware is
> under powered. the vender chose Java because the Java runtime envornment
> is very portable. however there is a scaling issue. Many times the
> applications that we write are scaled after the fact.
>
> I run across a lot of schools that get hammered on the web because the
> Java processes are not running fast enough.
>
> I still hold on to my old 286 development standard, If you can make a
> process run fast on a 286 PC then that is good code.
>
> I love OO it does every thing that I need it to, almost (Visio: another
> thread.). It does take a while to load.
>
>
>
> David C. Lane
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 8:28:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Open Office failures
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:46:06AM -0500, Michael Corral wrote:
>>
>> 2010-02-17, Monsieur David Lane a ecrit:
>> > Back to Open Office, when it runs into trouble are the JAVA resources
>> > an issue?
>>
>> What "JAVA resources" are you talking about? Open Office is not a
>> Java application.
>
> One of the first things I do when I use OpenOffice on a new system is
> turn off Java:
>
> Just go to the Tools menu -> Options, then click on the "Java" subitem
> under "OpenOffice.org" and unclick the "Use a java runtime
> environment". 
>
> I've found it speeds up OpenOffice applications.  (although this might
> not be the case anymore with faster computers)
>
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Dan DeSloover