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If you think you can replace the Office Suite with Google docs, then you don't know how the other half lives. It just wouldn't work for people whose primary pr
by maxbaroi 13y ago
If you think you can replace the Office Suite with Google docs, then you don't know how the other half lives.
It just wouldn't work for people whose primary programming and analysis tool is Excel on moderately sized data-sets. I just copy-pasted a 100,000 row query result from MS SQL Server into Google Docs. It's been about five minutes, and it still hasn't copied over.
That's not a pathological case. Where I work, people routinely use excel spreadsheets with tens if not hundreds of thousands of rows.
Granted, Excel would be the devil if its incompetence was malicious and not just stupid. And maybe when you reach that level you need to tell people they're doing it wrong and shouldn't be using Excel to manipulate things that are that size. But Excel just works for them so why would/should they switch over to Google Docs when it doesn't work?
I don't know Libreoffice's capabilities well. I only have it on my personal laptop, and in the six years I've been running Linux, I rarely had any need to use the office suite there. If someone would speak to that (either way), I would appreciate it.