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Al Jones

Slow start up is a big turn off 

In OpenOfficers pitch Oracle on life after Sun

I don't do enough work with documents to justify paying for Microsoft Office, but waiting for 45 seconds every time I need to open a .XLS file attached to an e-mail certainly doesn't make OpenOffice my favorite piece of software. Maybe it doesn't matter for someone who has the application open all day, every day, but for the "light" user, OpenOffice is pretty sucky.