NeoOffice Performance Comparison

From NeoWiki

N.B. Initial editing is still in progress

N.B. This page compares NeoOffice 2.2.4 to OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2/StarOffice 9 Beta and Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac.

This page attempts to provide a balanced, but by no means complete, comparison of NeoOffice's performance with two comparable office suites, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org and Microsoft, to help you make a more informed decision when evaluating office software. Some other software developers have similar comparison pages; those we are aware of are linked below.

NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice.org/StarOffice vs. Microsoft Office

Performance Test	NeoOffice	OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta 2/StarOffice 9 Beta for Mac	MS Office 2008 for Mac
General:
Price	$0.00, donation requested	$0.00	$149.95 Home & Student Edition
Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after reboot (cold start)	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Launch time to active cursor in Writer document by double-clicking on application in Finder after quitting application (warm start)	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Word Processor:
... with a 500,000 character document (about 130 pages long)
Open in page view, drag from Finder to closed application.	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Open in page view, drag from Finder to open application	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scroll with the keyboard: 10x Page Down button	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scrolling with the mouse: 10 clicks in Scrollbar	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scrolling with the mouse: Click and drag in Scrollbar to end of document	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Save	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Save as ... Same format different name	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Print Preview	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Print ...	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Export as PDF	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
... with a 2 million character document (about 530 pages long)
Open in page view, drag from Finder to closed application.	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Open in page view, drag from Finder to open application	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scroll with the keyboard: 10x Page Down button	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scrolling with the mouse: 10 clicks in Scrollbar	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Scrolling with the mouse: Click and drag in Scrollbar to end of document	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Save	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Save as ... Same format different name	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Print Preview	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Print ...	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Export as PDF	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Presentation:
... with a 13 slide document
Open by dragging from Finder to closed application.	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Open by dragging from Finder to open application	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Switch from edit to Slide Show	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Time to complete slide show with no transitions, using right arrow to advance slide	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds
Time to complete slide show with no transitions, with slide advance set to 1 second	xxx seconds	xxx seconds	xxx seconds

Notes:

• Tested under Mac OS 10.4.11 on an Mac Book Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo with 1 GB of RAM
• Tests were run as a newly created user with default setup
• No other applications were running
• Spell checking and automatic hyphenation were disabled
• Sample 500,000 and 2 million character word processing documents were obtained from ApfelWiki Word-Alternativen Der Test
• Sample presentation document was obtained from NeoOffice Bugzilla

Other Comparisons

Additional performance (and feature) comparisons between selected office suites and word processors are available at Mellel: Competitive Comparison (redlers.com; compares Mellel 2.0 with Microsoft Office 2004, OpenOffice.org 2.0.x, and Nisus Writer Express 2.7, but not NeoOffice) and Word-Alternativen: Der Test (apfelwiki.de; compares AbiWord 2.4.5, Mellel 2.2.7, NeoOffice 2.2.1, Nisus Writer Pro 1.0, and Apple's Pages 3.0 [de]).