Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Monday 14 November 2005 11:18 am, Kai Ponte wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 November 2005 07:16 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> > > > On Monday 14 November 2005 03:21, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, perhaps she can use it, but what happens when she needs to
> >
> > prepare or use
> >
> > > an Excel spreadsheet?
> >
> > I agree this needs to be actively discussed and in a neutral fashion.
> > The argument could degenerate into an "advocacy" forum, but hopefully
> > will be kept above-board.
> 
> I would prefer to honestly say that OO (OpenOffice) will work
perfectly with 
> all Excell spreadsheets.  I have looked at neither Excell nor OO
spreadsheet 
> in quite some time, but I would bet good money that compatability is
far from 
> perfect.  

Actually I've yet to run into an issue with spreadsheets. I use them all
the time. Most are made in Excel 2000, XP or 2003. I have heard that
macros can fuxxor things up with OOo, but I haven't used a macro in a
spreadsheet in a long while. 

> Furthermore, I find OO hard to use.

What part? I use OO Writer, Calc, and Impress all the time. Very nice
stuff and user friendly. OO 2.0 is far and away better and more polished
that 1.x was. I actually have OOo 2.0 installed on my Win2K machine at
home. I prefer it for most things to Office 2003, which runs like a dog
in comparison.


>  
> > I happen to agree with the current state of usage. There are many things
> > which work great in *nix desktops. (I won't even agrue servers, since MS
> > has no valid server offering.)
> 
> That really isn't true.  I've seen lots of sites running NT Servers for 
> various purposes.  


That was a joke. Sorry. In my days, I've built configured and setup the
domains for several hundreds of NT servers. I just never found NT to be
a valid server platform, and Win2003 doesn't make me feel any different.
 It just seems that Windows as a server is an afterthought at best. 

My office has several hundred NT/2K/2003 servers and so far only about a
dozen SLES servers. I'm trying my best to increase the number of SLES
servers. I've already replaced one Win2K server with a new SLES system. :)

 
-- 
kai ponte
www.perfectreign.com

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