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Yes, typical power users of Excel would cost way more than that every day. $399 is tiny even for small business.

• cmdrfred 10y ago
  What features specifically exist in Excel but not in open office?
  • dragonwriter 10y ago
    In Office Professional Plus, PowerPivot. IIRC, LO/OOo have much poorer support for tables and table formulae than Excel, as well.
    • cmdrfred 10y ago
      What percentage of the user base uses that functionality? Especially considering that at the point you require the ability to "import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook" you should probably be using a proper database and stop playing around.
      • dragonwriter 10y ago
        > What percentage of the user base uses that functionality? Tables or PowerPivot? I'd say a substantial share of the institutions purchasing Office Professional Plus are using at least one of the two in important processes, even if only a small number of users are directly aware of it. > Especially considering that at the point you require the ability to "import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook" you should probably be using a proper database and stop playing around. PowerPivot is (built on, at least, the feature includes more than just the database) a proper column-oriented OLAP database.
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