[CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[Kevin Cullis]

I agree with Jeff.

I talked with a guy who works for Sun in Broomfield. A couple of
comments.  First, he stated at their last "board meeting" recently about
1/3 of the "execs" had Apple Powerbooks running, you guessed it, Open
Office under Apple's X11.  That's why he was considering running Mac OS
X rather than Windows.

Second, he runs Excel getting data from 8 inputs: 4 from RDBMS and 4
from people with a total of over 300,000 cells being populated.  OO does
NOT come close to this production, but they're working on it.

I agree that OO is something I would use for beginning to intermediate
users, but for power users I'd used MS office even though I'd hate to.

In about 2 years OO should be able to run comfortably on Linux,
Soloaris, Windows, and Mac OS X, then everyone can switch to Linux or
Macs.

HTH

Kevin

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 22:29, Jeff Cann wrote:
> 
> Plus, Excel is the lingua franca of financial companies.  Most have millions 
> of dollars of their own intellectual property built into Excel spreadsheets, 
> macros and VBA apps.  So, it must do the job well enough and to get them to 
> move to OO without the automated ability to move all of those custom macros 
> and apps is a joke.
> 
> But for personal use, I would not run MS Office on Linux -- I'm use OO to 
> track product features in spreadsheets -- text formats and some simple sales 
> models.  Not rocket science, not RDBMS back end.  OO and Excel are overkill 
> for my personal use.
> 
> Jeff