Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 00:58 -0600 schrieb Mark VandeWettering:
>> With Excel?
>
> Yes, OpenOffice Calc works well.
I would say absolutely not. Since the HD blew up in our Windows box and I
lost some company spreadsheets I migrated from MS Excel to OpenOffice and
it is absolutely awful by comparison. I'm going to migrate back ASAP...
> It does not have VBA, so moving from Excel to Calc is a major pain if
> you have a lot of homegrown macros, but macroless sheets can be
> converted quite smoothly.
I only write the simplest spreadsheets with completely naive
purely-functional lazy calculation (no macros) and a few simple diagrams.
OpenOffice falls a long way short of even my minimal requirements:
.. Ugly charts: broken with respect to aspect ratio.
.. Unreliable: OpenOffice consumes all available resources until it dies.
Up-time is only a few hours. Linux cannot handle this and the whole
desktop
suffers as a consequence. Before a recent distro upgrade, OpenOffice
somehow destabilized the graphics drivers and was randomly taking out the
whole of X!
.. Slow: Startup time is awful but the application even stalls for several
seconds when I update a single cell on a small spreadsheet. Saving a small
spreadsheet takes several seconds.
I have also tried KSpread, the KDE spreadsheet application. It is much
faster than OpenOffice but is unusably broken.
The problem is essentially that the open source community are constantly
building their GUI applications on sand because they have no solid
foundations like the CLR and WPF. Linux is fine for stable software in the
context of servers but on the desktop it is a complete joke compared to
Windows, plagued by unreliable and broken software.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?u
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