I bought an eeePC 4G about a month ago. Since I purchased it I had the chance to play around with OpenOffice that came installed on it. After I realized all the capability the office suite has curiosity got the best of me and I was on a mission to test out how good it was on the Windows platform.

This morning I installed the entire package to a server for testing and went through each of the applications. I’m just amazed at the features and look of the entire thing. There was a little bit of lag when it came to working with Base, that was the only issue I’ve witnessed during my testing.

When it comes to small businesses this would be the perfect solution, and a great money maker for small IT firms. Small businesses benefit by not having to buy the office product and all the licenses that go with it, plus you get a ton of great features you find in the bigger name products. One of the important features in OpenOffice is the PDF export. Most of the clients we have purchased Adobe Acrobat or downloaded a virtual print driver like PDF995. When it came to the IT firms that handle clients, any work done to install this office suite would be straight profit. Pretty good situation for both sides of the fence.

…The staff in this building have just managed to fill an entire file server, guess it’s time to get back to work.