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Wednesday, July 07, 2004

The State of KOffice 1.3

Ben Lamb: "This article has been written because I think there is a lack of information about KOffice available. At a recent tradeshow it was apparent many people had adopted OpenOffice as a de-facto standard without realising there is a powerful alternative that is better integrated with KDE. Whilst I won't pretend that KOffice has reached the same level of maturity as OpenOffice but it is extremely usable. The 1.3 release makes substantial improvements but to make further progress the project needs both users and developers. Lack of users means relatively little testing and no feedback to the developers. KOffice has now reached the stage where it has a mature core and is usable for many everyday tasks. Please read this review and, if it has the features you need, consider trying out one or two applications. You never know, you might like it! I don't believe for one moment that any of the problems I mention are beyond being fixed. Why do we need KOffice when OpenOffice is available? I believe competition is good. KOffice has some components OpenOffice doesn't, such as drawing and database functionality. KOffice has a smaller codebase than OpenOffice, so it should be easier for new developers and people wanting to try new ideas to get to grips with."

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