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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by exhilaration on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:43PM (#28323769)
I mean, you're right, no one at Goldman Sachs is using Google sheets unless it's to get everyone's lunch orders together. (Hell, I bet Google's finance team uses Excel.) But most of us don't work at Goldman and don't do anything remotely complex. I would guess that 90% of Excel users fall into this category and that's who Sheets is for.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by throwaway2037 on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:58AM (#28324739)
I don't know any huge, non-tech companies (insurance, commercial banks, investment banks, heavy industry, auto manufs, etc.) that use the Google ecosystem (office & mail). I'm sure all of them use Microsoft Exchange (slowly moving to MSFT cloud), instead of GMail. If someone knows any good exceptions, please share!
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by blitzar on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:37AM (#28325832)
https://workspace.google.com/learn-more/pwc_and_google_bring...

I think the big transition at PWC was 5 years or so ago I think, but to this day every document I get from them is Excel / Word. Despite how much work went into those accounts - these are not complex spreadsheets either!

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by throwaway2037 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @12:09PM (#28381667)
Did you ever think that PWC is sending Excel/Word to exchange data with outside parties? And internally the use GSuite? It seems possible.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by jslove on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:15AM (#28324236)
And the rest of the people should be using pandas, a database, or data visualization tools (tableau) instead.
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by CRConrad on Monday August 30, 2021 @07:03PM (#28361972)
Because being dependent on Salesforce is so much better than being dependent on any other big proprietary corporation?
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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by ubermonkey on Friday August 27, 2021 @06:16PM (#28333555)
Why?
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