I noticed a Technet Blog mentioning that OpenOffice is being made available free via the latest Sun Java update.

Reading further into the blog entry and the following fun and games begin:

Before you’re tempted to install this, maybe consider the following…

Read this for a business perspective which can help understand the “productivity software” claims, for sure a contradiction in terms!!!

Microsoft Office Word 2007 and OpenOffice.org 2.2.0 Mail Merge Comparison

“I was recently employed part time by a charity which uses OpenOffice. A longtime Microsoft Word, etc., user…Mailmerge!! It only took you fifty minutes! Congratulations. It’s taken me hours and hours of puzzling to the point of neurosis and I’m no nearer success.”

And thus begin the attempts at inserting Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Note that the Mail Merge Comparison was performed by the same blog author on Tuesday, May 08, 2007. Also note that the comparison was between OpenOffice 2.2.0 and Word 2007… Read the rest of this entry »