[OOfftopic} Re: Gnumeric vs. OOCalc

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Martin Sevior wrote:

> > > > Anybody know of good writeups of the two in a face-off?  Google brought
> > > > me little in this regard, except for a few kudo's for Gnumeric, similar
> > > > to my early impressions of the two as they stack up.
> >
> > For a deeply scientific comparision:
> > http://googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Gnumeric&q2=OOCalc&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us
> >
> > Gnumeric is clearly better!
> > ;)
>
> Ummm I tried AbiWord vs Open Office. I'm afraid OO wins easily in
> the "Mind Share" department :-(
>
> http://googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=AbiWord&q2=Open+Office&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

but abiword beats both OOWrite and OOWriter!
http://googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=AbiWord&q2=OOWriter&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

however i must concede that Gnome Office loses to OpenOffice and Open
Office although it does wine over their "official" copyrighted name
OpenOffice.org
http://googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Gnome+Office&q2=OpenOffice.org&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us

Sincerely

Alan

PS yes i CC'ed the abiword list because this may be of interest,
apologies to the gnumeric list for this silliness ;)