Dansk LibreOffice Forum

The results of this time-use analysis has show that no statistically significant variation in productivity measured in number of document processed per day and average effort per document has been found over a period of 32 weeks between two randomised groups of users, one to whom OpenOffice was introduced, and one that kept using Microsoft Office. This is perhaps surprising, since users were not previously familiar with OpenOffice. Indeed, the group of users was also asked whether as a result of the experimentation they thought they could do with OpenOffice the same amount of work they could do with Microsoft Office. As shown in Figure 46, under 10% of respondents thought they could not, more than 20% thought they definitely could perform as well with OpenOffice, while almost 60% thought they could be as productive with OpenOffice (as confirmed by the time-use analysis) though with some problems. Given their previous lack of experience with OpenOffice the fact that problems were subjectively perceived is unsurprising, but the fact that objectively the productivity of users remained the same and did not reduce is important.