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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by hinkley on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:32PM (#16601747)
Long have I wished for an open source spreadsheet tool built on a database backend.

I don’t hear the stories as much these days but for ages it was common for contracting firms to come into a place and find they’d been running the whole operation as an Excel spreadsheet and they had a very poor understanding of how complicated it would be to grow their system. Basically a complete rewrite to a DB model.

I thought for sure when Oracle bought Sun that this would be forthcoming but nothing came of it.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by zdragnar on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:13PM (#16602155)
That was exactly my experience around two years ago. The brand of the company was far, far more valuable than their internal processes or capabilities as a result, and it was a painful migration (still is, from what I hear).
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