Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Gear
Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: > [...] > >>I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it >>cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be >>able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:59:48 +0100, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: > [...] > > > > I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it > > cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be > > able

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 17:33:10 -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > He meant will gnumeric run on windows Windows builds are possible now, but a lot still needs to be done; see e.g. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/2004-September/msg00011.html > or mac... http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/pack

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I don't think gnumeric is cross-platform (easily cross platformed, maybe with cygwin) whereas Openoffice is (click and install). I use Excel everyday and in combination with VBA and other programs like SPSS and powerpoint. I have to admit that I haven't played much with OO macros and not at all

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Adam Funk
On Monday 06 September 2004 16:50, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I > would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In > particular I am

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 06 September 2004 07:41 am, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, > I would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In > particular I

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: [...] I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them still

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: [...] > > I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it > cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be > able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them > still use Windows

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:28:04 +0200 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: [...] > sendmail.cf does not resemble line noise. It resembles the result of > somebody banging his head on the keyboard. Anybody who has worked with it > will understand why. > Seth Breidbart in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's cool

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Paul Gear
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I > would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In > particular I am looking for > > 1) things which ca

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 15:41:16 +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? As the maintainer of the Debian packages for gnumeric, I'm not the most objective source of information. Still, you may

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 03:41:16PM +, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I > would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In > particula