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 them

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

2004-09-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
to presentation ... without using a third party language like perl/python. Granted, as a statistician, my needs are far above those of most normal users and my guess is that for most users either gnumeric or oocalc will work nicely. I think you have given me a reason to spend more time learning a bit

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...

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
committed to the file at each time (client will add some data and I will additional data as time progresses). Looks like the best way to achieve this is to export the data from gnumeric into excel spreadsheet and pass it on. Thanks a lot for all the feedback. Another thing I noticed with gnumeric

gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
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 can be done in one but cant be done in

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 particular I

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

2004-09-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
at? Not that I'm aware of, at least not free software ones. Kcalc, sc, Oleo etc. are much more limited than oocalc and gnumeric. 6) Enable some sort of scripting along with gui? There is quite a bit of infrastructure in place in Gnumeric to prepare for scripting (in particular using Python

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 can be

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! I

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 or

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

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 am