Is Open Source the future? From a careful eye to the various discussions on the superiority of open source software over commercial software, and vice versa. In several such discussions, I decided to even take part.
in these discussions, I noticed one very interesting thing: you see a surprising number of people attacking the commercial software - especially Microsoft's, and most Microsoft Office - not because it is technically inferior. Attacking them only because it is not open, supposedly that openness was a redeeming feature.
Let us therefore together, dear reader, a few differences between Microsoft Office and its open "counterpart" or OpenOffice.
first difference, which arises in the mind, is the price. You can not hide the nature of open source is its gratuitous, so here OpenOffice wins the Microsoft product. Unfortunately, the last time.
So now we got your package and have it installed. We can start working. Hmm, but why this OpenOffice is so coarse? Why is it so very different from the standard, which is a Microsoft product?
Well exactly! Microsoft Office is without a doubt the standard for many years. This is what we learn in their high schools and universities, and some even in podstawówkach. Not surprisingly, that OpenOffice seems strangely. But let's be straight: the product consists of not only the right product, but also the whole culture. That is also true that
Microsoft invests a lot of money to teach us the use of computer, operating system, office suite, etc. And what does the OpenOffice manufacturer in this field? Exactly, and who really is the producer? OK, but if the possibility of ending the office suite works on simple text editor and spreadsheet? Microsoft says it is not! In the end you have the right to require something more from a product that is not in the end so cheap!
real differences between these two packages are summed up in a situation where we want to create a small application, based on the functionality of the package. For example, you want your company to implement the time sheets for employees in your department. So you make the worksheet spreadsheet form will the introduction of working time. Done! Your employees are already allowed to write descriptions of each of his task with the hour and minute of its inception. Aleeee ....
But how do you know if your employees will not be combined? Believe me, a very important thing. If you do not carefully control the worker, this without your knowledge breaks off half an hour a day, or even more with time, the thoughtful way stretching starting times of individual tasks. Does that matter?
So you need to modify your spreadsheet so that the employee was unable to enter or modify the start time and was required to simply enter all your tasks on the fly.
spreadsheet will not allow it? You must create this functionality in the form of a web page? And how!
One of the priorities of Microsoft as a company is to provide users with the functionality, for which in the case of Open Source Software would have to pay an additional programmer to adapt some of these free products to some meaningful applications.
With Microsoft so you do not have unnecessary to employ people, saved money You spend such a gift for his wife, or a new car . And this is the greatest asset of this company!
But how exactly this goal Microsoft has a worksheet for your employees? It's simple: Microsoft Office provides a very simple programming language in which you write even a place to keep the functionality of the data entered in a Microsoft SharePoint portal company, thus making any modifications to the start times of tasks detectable in a fast and automatic way.
Oh wait, you write? Sure, you do not. But believe me, I have seen many examples of people who minimal knowledge of and contact with computers, who were able to rig up something quite meaningful in the programming language of Microsoft Office. The more that the package also offers the ability to record the operations performed by you and developing them into your program code.
I realize that a full explanation of the differences between Microsoft Office, and the infirm counterpart, requires much more space than I'm willing to sacrifice in this blog, but I hope that you have already outlined a fundamental difference.
main difference is Indeed win business.
Why employ unnecessary because people and wasting their money, to inventing a new functionality that Microsoft has long since you invented? Is not it better to pay Microsoft 10% of what wyrzuciłbyś on unnecessary staff, and enjoy the increased productivity of those workers who are engaged in business-specific issues?
