Critics of OpenOffice.org 2.0 . . . um . . . whatever . . .

Forrester Research's recent IT View Quick Take (December 16, 2005), by Kyle McNabb, stated that "OpenOffice.org and its commercial counterpart, Sun Microsystem's StarOffice 8, recently introduced new versions of the market's top open source desktop productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.0 mimics Microsoft Office in many ways and offers new, interesting file format and macro conversion capabilities. However, a lack of innovation and no real improvement over the market's leading desktop productivity suite makes OpenOffice.org 2.0 little more than a cheap Office imitation and a step back for information workers — exhibited by a potential productivity killer in bumbling collaborative document editing support. Enterprises with information workers entrenched in Office should pass despite the cost savings, while others seeking lower costs — like public sector organizations and organizations that haven't grown up with Microsoft — should not simply write off OpenOffice.org 2.0, but instead, should take a closer look. Just don't expect innovation."
Innovation for its own sake is best left to the physics and chemistry labs, not the small business desktop. Criticizing a terrifically useful product for its lack of innovation is like criticizing something because it's only very good as opposed to state of the art. Ridiculous! More . . .