Electrify that server!
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@boomzilla said:
@Ronald said:
Excel is kicking the ass of free office suites.
That's not surprising, but I'll bet the Open/LibreOffice is more common than IT decision makers know.
IT decision makers control the budget. Do you suggest that anyone provided with a paid license of Microsoft Office will instead opt to secretely install Open Office or Libre Office?
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@Ronald said:
IT decision makers control the budget. Do you suggest that anyone provided with a paid license of Microsoft Office will instead opt to secretely install Open Office or Libre Office?
Possibly. I think it's supposed to be possible to install Office under WINE, but I've never seen it first hand. So if there's anyone around running Linux somewhere, it's likely they have Open/LibreOffice installed. I wonder what my company would say. It's a small fraction of people, to be sure, but the question in your poll was whether it was used in somewhere in their organization, not the percentage of their users who used it.
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@boomzilla said:
I think it's supposed to be possible to install Office under WINE, but I've never seen it first hand. So if there's anyone around running Linux somewhere, it's likely they have Open/LibreOffice installed.
I have a VirtualBox installation of Windows to run Office for the times when I need to, which is rare. I use Open/Libre (I don't remember which it is) for stuff that have an audience outside of our department, but requires more than a plain text document.
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@boomzilla said:
@Ronald said:
IT decision makers control the budget. Do you suggest that anyone provided with a paid license of Microsoft Office will instead opt to secretely install Open Office or Libre Office?
Possibly. I think it's supposed to be possible to install Office under WINE, but I've never seen it first hand. So if there's anyone around running Linux somewhere, it's likely they have Open/LibreOffice installed. I wonder what my company would say. It's a small fraction of people, to be sure, but the question in your poll was whether it was used in somewhere in their organization, not the percentage of their users who used it.
Wine says that the [url="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=31"]installer works pretty well for 2010[/url]. Excel itself...[url="http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=22304"]a little worse[/url]. Macros don't work. Call it a security feature.
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Well Wine sucks. The clear solution is to use macros in Open/Libre Office to write a complete virtual machine, then install and run Excel from there.
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@boomzilla said:
@Ronald said:
IT decision makers control the budget. Do you suggest that anyone provided with a paid license of Microsoft Office will instead opt to secretely install Open Office or Libre Office?
Possibly. I think it's supposed to be possible to install Office under WINE, but I've never seen it first hand. So if there's anyone around running Linux somewhere, it's likely they have Open/LibreOffice installed. I wonder what my company would say. It's a small fraction of people, to be sure, but the question in your poll was whether it was used in somewhere in their organization, not the percentage of their users who used it.
There is now an Android version of Office. It's only a matter of time before regular Linux users are blessed with a version for their S&M desktop operating system. In the meantime the web version works pretty much like the regular one.
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@Ronald said:
There is now an Android version of Office. It's only a matter of time before regular Linux users are blessed with a version for their S&M desktop operating system. In the meantime the web version works pretty much like the regular one.
Given how bad Wine is, if linux users want to run an offline version of Office their best option is probably to run the Android version in an emulator.
