Re: Living without Microsoft Office
- From: "Bill Yanaire" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:55:54 -0700
"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.ro> wrote in message
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Bill Yanaire wrote:
"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.ro> wrote in message
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Alias
DIRECT FROM YOUR ARTICLE:
In a market filled with file formats standardized through committee
action, the most commonly used document format is Microsoft Word's .doc
file. Yes, there are common file formats, like RTF, and many Office
alternatives can open and save to Office file formats. But saving back
into those formats to share with Office users can be imperfect. In a
business world that relies increasingly on collaboration, these file
format issues can become show stoppers.
The problem worsens when the target shifts from word processors to
spreadsheets. Many business intelligence and ERP packages use Excel as a
desktop front end to their data-gathering functions, and they rely
heavily both on Excel's format and its VBA macro programming facilities.
For example, while Zoho will import Excel spreadsheet files and allow
development of VBA-format macros, the user interface is sufficiently
different, and the style-import features sufficiently limited, to make it
an imperfect "out of the box" substitute for Microsoft Excel at the
corporate level.
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Like I said before. OpenOrafice may be OK for the letter to Mama but
most companies don't want to lower their standards going to OpenOrafice 3
or any other junky Open Source Office package. Just doesn't cut it.
Alias on the other hand doesn't get it. Most businesses need to
functionality of the more powerful suite which is Microsoft.
Keep dreaming. One day OpenOrafice will be in 0.02% of the
desktops!!!!!!!!
So, can we conclude that you won't be using Open Office and have no
interest?
Alias
I won't be using Open Office in the near future. Maybe when I retire and
all I need to do is write a letter to Mama and calculate 100 numbers, I
might, just might consider it. Who knows in 10 years, I just might be able
to produce a 2 page letter and calculate 300 numbers!
.
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