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Re:Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source ... by baq on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:06PM (#41073393)
There’s no workable Excel alternative, FOSS, OSS or paid. You can deal with the word processor and presentation software, but Excel is alone in a class for itself.

Also not sure how you deal with LDAP/Kerberos - is samba good enough for large deployments?

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Re:Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source ... by shrimp_emoji on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:11PM (#41073435)
FreeOffice PlanMaker is an Excel clone for Linux and Mac. Not sure what corner cases it doesn't cover though.
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Re:Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source ... by kkfx on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:18AM (#41076205)
Hem... I fail to see a single reasons to use a spreadsheet or create slides in PowerPoint alike software actually...

We can compute easily in R, Python, Clojure, also with some wrappers from Jupyter to R-Studio to Clerk for those who want it, personally I present in org-mode (dslide) with easy and no extra overhead. Maybe it's about time to teach administrative people how to use a computer...

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