Software SmackDown: SoftMaker Comes Out on Top?
How could anyone expect a less well funded commercial competitor, much less an open source project, to equal Office for features, performance and interoperability with other office suites?
The funny thing is, though, that the quality of the result, and even the ability to interoperate in a world dominated by Microsoft's Office, doesn't necessarily equate to the depth of the resources of the developer. Now isn't that an interesting observation?
That's the lesson of a product comparison posted a week ago at InfoWorld by Randall C. Kennedy. In that article, Kennedy describes the "torture test" he used to evaluate two office suites: the one developed by SoftMaker, and the much better known offering of OpenOffice.org. You may be surprised to learn that Kennedy scores the SoftMaker suite highest. Most intriguingly, Kennedy concludes that SoftMaker cleans OOo's clock when it comes to the hardly insignificant or difficult task of playing nicely with that Other Suite that so many people around the world use.
That wouldn't be so surprising except for this: SoftMaker has...(wait for it)...only 17 employees.
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