George Ou's Performance Benchmarks and Some Missing Test Parameters

George Ou ran some benchmarks and it seems OpenOffice.org is a little out of shape compared to the seemingly speedy Excel.

I'm not a programmer and have not done a lot of benchmark tests so am accepting the info in George Ou's article for the sake of this post.

That said, part of the memory issue is possibly that OpenOffice.org is one program with the capacity to create and run all the different document types--Writer, Calc spreadsheets, Impress presentations, Draw diagrams and drawings, etc. I love being able to choose File > New > Text Document, then File > New > Spreadsheet, then open a presentation, without having to start up a new program every time.

For an apples-to-apples comparison, it might be a good idea to start up Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Visio, and then compare memory usage to OpenOffice.org.

I'd like to see benchmarks on that.

I'd also like to see benchmarks on Powerpoint, Word, and Visio. 

Anyway, all other topics aside, buying more memory is still way cheaper than buying Microsoft Office. ;>   (And using OpenOffice.org Writer is still cheaper than the baldness treatment drugs required if I used Word....you know, which makes me curse and pull out my hair....)