Gnumeric

Posted Aug 4, 2005 14:41 UTC (Thu) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
In reply to: Gnumeric by tialaramex
Parent article: Our bloat problem

I'd say that OpenOffice will be because of its bloat a dead piece of
software. Why? Because programmers that have a choice choose better
architected office suits. Take Koffice. Beatifully architected, too
little features. Its code size is reasonable, and it is coded in C++, a
language understood by many programmers. It should be possible to get
started with it.

OpenOffice, on the other hand requires full knowledge about both C++ and
Java, is nightmare to develop on because simply compiling it takes ages
because it is so much code. You only want to develop on it if you're paid
to do so, which is exactly what is happening, OpenOffice is still coded
mostly by Sun employees.