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Is it Time for Open Office?

Posted by Cliff on from the opportunity-for-adoption dept.

lazyron asks: "I've been using Open Office a bit more lately, and got to thinking: this is much more like my current version of Microsoft Office than Office 2007 will be. Could it be time to try Open Office in the workplace, especially since there is still some time left before Office 2007 will be forced on us by the demands of the product cycle? Are there any IT admins out there thinking about trying Open Office, either with a few users or all of them?"

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  1. Excel's crap for scientific data by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Informative

    God the problems I had trying to handle large datasets... Where "large" is bigger than say 64k... So what I really mean by large is small. Excel is just completely useless for anything non trivial.

    Yes as you mentioned, there are better tools for the job and frankly as hard as they might seem, they just work.

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