Re: Star Office

[Peter Wintrich <peter@wintrich.mww.de>]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Brendan O'Brien wrote:

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> Hey Y'all--
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> I was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem I have with StarCalc.  In my work I routinely do data analysis on hundreds of thousands of data points.  Normally, I use Excel on Win98 to do this but recently I grew frustrated with Windows with all its bugs and crashes and reboots on a daily basis.  I decided to try using Linux based on it's reputation for stability and installed Corel and then subsequently Debian as a separate partition in the same box.  When I try to run one of the standard data analysis routines I use with Excel/Win98 it takes literally seconds to draw a graph.  If I try to do the same thing with StarCalc the cpu grinds away for minutes at nearly 100% usage and eventually the job crashes the system altogether.  Does this sound familiar to anyone?  
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> The box is a 400MHz Pentium II, 64MB RAM, 1GB Linux partition....
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> Thanks,
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> Brendan
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Its also my experience. StarOffice and especially StarCalc can't reach
the performance and "stability" of M$-Excel.
I have tested StarOffice 5.0 on Kernel 2.2.6 against Excel on NT 4.0.
I'm use gnuplot instead.
- high performnce
- high quality plots
- high stability
but a little bit of trainig for your first positive experience.

have a lucky day
Peter Wintrich

PS: sorry my poor english