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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by Havoc on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:35PM (#23796131)
>I use LibreOffice calc daily as an excel replacement on Linux. I am a Software Developer

The issue is not whether software developers can replace their (barely existent) Excel usage but whether accountants & office workers can.

I have yet to meet a SINGLE accountant aware of openoffice/libreoffice's existence. OO/Libre is deader than dead in the one segment where it matters.

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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by sushshshsh on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:52PM (#23796328)
How many people out there have workloads that can't be met by LibreOffice Calc? I would like to meet those people because they must have very interesting jobs and automating their work would have a high monetary impact.
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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by bitwize on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:01PM (#23796406)
LibreOffice Calc absolutely chugs when it comes to recalculating. Entire sections of the economy run on large, complicated Excel sheets; porting them over would not only be slow, cumbersome, and time-consuming, but would require hardware that does not yet exist to run them on.

THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR EXCEL in the financial sector. Part of the reason why is because Excel has customers -- big, rich, important customers, and lots of them -- and so it is supported and updated as if by an entity that wants to please its customers.

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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by anthony_barker on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:56PM (#23874781)
The same could have been said about lotus 123 in the early 90s. Companies got rich getting himem.sys working
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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by akho on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:32AM (#23833122)
It does indeed have a high monetary impact. Just look at Microsoft.

I use PowerPivot and PowerQuery a lot. A job does not have to be particularly interesting for you to derive value from those two, practically any Excel-using job will do. Either of the two is a game-changer by itself.

I think that the bulk of user-facing changes to Excel over the last ten years is in either PowerQuery or PowerPivot. Neither has an adequate alternative in LO, as far as I’m aware.

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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by Havoc on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:10PM (#23796489)
>How many people out there have workloads that can't be met by LibreOffice Calc?

Irrelevant. We're dealing with industry wide network effects here.

Excel has complete dominance and will keep it unless they release a version where 1+1=3

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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by akho on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:36AM (#23833162)
No. There are no network effects here. Any company in the financial sector would switch to an excel alternative with a tangible edge over Excel in a heartbeat. LO Calc is Excel 2003, but uglier and with more bugs. That is not a viable commercial proposition.
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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by Bud on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:56PM (#23796363)
Um, for starters, anyone who needs stable software, professional support, timely software updates, or the ability to run on a mainstream OS.

So basically? Everyone.

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Re:“LibreOffice is at serious risk” by ryukafalz on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:05PM (#23796447)
LibreOffice has certified consultants you can hire[0] for large deployments, seems to be under pretty active development, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, which together make up the vast majority of OSes used on the desktop. It’s been a while since I’ve used it heavily, but I can’t recall it being particularly unstable.

It doesn’t have professional support for individual users, I’ll grant you that.

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/

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