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Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:21PM (#9065521)
> we came up against the 65536 rows limit

At which point you have a database and would be better served with a different product designed to work with large data sets or moving data to external ODBC sources that Excel can query.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by davidgerard on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @08:10PM (#9066412)
This is true but empirically, nobody cares: they're gonna do it in a spreadsheet. So spreadsheet software has to allow for this massive use case, and arguing they're doing it wrong gets no traction.
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Re:LibreOffice 4.4 review – Finally, it rocks by ZenoArrow on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @07:00PM (#9066086)
That only works if you have the IT infrastructure to support it. In the company I was referring to before, the IT team was effectively one guy. Plus, there was a considerable Excel expertise in the team I was in at the time, aside from calculation time Excel was working very well for what was needed.
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