From: greg@sherrill.kiva.net (Gregory Travis)
Subject: Re: StarOffice vs Applixware?
Date: 23 Feb 1998 14:01:23 -0500

In article <slrn6f3grt.2r8.chris@uchris.csports.com>,
Christopher Wong <chris@csports.com> wrote:
>On 22 Feb 1998 04:59:54 GMT, Eric Lee Green <e_l_green@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>On 20 Feb 1998 16:23:04 GMT, Christopher Wong <chris@csports.com> wrote:
>>>usable. This is why I did not mention that Applixware's full install
>>>weighs in at 480Mb. Maybe Applix should consider some file compression
>>
>>Huh? I do 
>>[eric@localhost eric]$ df /opt/applix
>>Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>>/dev/hdc6             249823  209942    26981     89%   /opt/applix
>>
>>That's for Applix 4.3... is the latest version of Applix really that much
>>bigger than Applix 4.3 was?!
>

I'll post the numbers later this evening (left the paper I wrote them
on at home) but last night I did a little test.

The test machines were a 486 Dell Latitude LX notebook with 16MB of
main memory and an SuperMicro Pentium 200 SCSI tower with 96MB of
main memory.

Roughly (again, from memory), the time to load StarOffice on the
notebook, from invocation to the appearance of the explorer was
2:18 (two minutes, eighteeen seconds).  On the Pentium 200 it was
roughly 40 seconds.

To open a new spreadsheet, from the explorer, took a further 1:10
seconds (one minute, ten seconds) on the Dell and about 11 seconds on
the Pentium.

StarOffice 4.0, standard install, took about 140MB on both machines.

Once loaded, StarOffice took over 32MB of memory with about 5.5MB resident
on the Dell.

Applix 4.37 on the Dell (haven't done the pentium testing yet) loaded to
the button bar in 1:10 (one minute ten seconds).  Opening a new spreadsheet
document took something like 11 second after that.

The memory footprint for Applix was about 24MB with 4MB resident.

Applix was SIGNIFICANTLY snappier than SO 4.0 on the notebook.  It's also
a more stable product.  StarOffice, on the other hand, kicks the living
shit out of Applix from a features and user interface point of view.

Applix loaded in 115MB WITHOUT any Clip Art or online documentation.  It
threatened to consume 450MB if I loaded all of it.

greg