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All lies. I work at IBM, and I have heard no such thing. As for "330,000 use Symphony" - everyone gets a computer with Symphony pre-installed. Nobody I know eve
by grammati 17y ago
All lies.
I work at IBM, and I have heard no such thing.
As for "330,000 use Symphony" - everyone gets a computer with Symphony pre-installed. Nobody I know ever uses it - ever. We all use MS Office, and have not been told to stop.
- osipov 17y agoI work in IBM SWG, we have been asked to use Symphony for our presentations. No one told us to stop using Office.
- gaius 17y agoI can absolutely 100% guarantee even IBM isn't boneheaded enough to tell its accountants to dump Excel!
- adharmad 17y agoWhy? In my experience, OO Excel has similar capabilities, although OO probably trails in the presentation features to powerpoint.
- gaius 17y agoBecause they'll have vast swathes of rather dodgy VBA, some of it probably has been patched and tweaked for 20 years, without which they'll be utterly unable to function, and the risk of porting it straight across is that the SEC comes and craps all over IBM for not keeping its accounts straight.
- mahmud 17y agoIt's OO Calc, not "Excel".
- Kadin 17y agoDoes OO Calc have the same tab-return behavior as Excel yet? Last time I tried it, doing data entry was a real PITA. In Excel, if you're entering data, you press 'tab' to move to the next column, and when you're done with that row, you press Return and it kicks you down and back into the leftmost column. Very handy, since it saves you a mouse movement or many left-arrow presses to get back to the start column. At least the last version of OO Calc I played with didn't mimic this behavior properly---pressing Return just dropped to the next row in the same column, even after entering several columns of data. Excel may not be the greatest program in the world (let's be honest, it's a bloated monster), but it does a few things right.