On Tuesday 25 January 2005 07:15, + Lourens Janse van Rensburg wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > Dear Sun Microsystems > > I sometimes do linear programming optimisation models, for which I have > to use M$ Excel and its Solver and Solver Table add-ins. Another useful > M$ Excel add-in is Decision Tree (www.treeplan.com). Are there > equivalents for these in OOo? > > For linear programming / operational research the goal seek > functionality is just not enough. > > I believe that many engineers, scientists and business professionals are > forced to use M$ Excel due to the absence of these add-ins in OOo. If > you could develop these add-ins for OOo (or somehow make OOo compatible > with M$ Excel add-ins) you would include these groups of people in your > user base. It would be especially good to include business > professionals (i.e. managers) in your user base because they are most > often also the decision makers who influence company policies i.t.o > which office suites to use in their corporations. > > The add-ins I've mentioned here are IMO the minimum requirements OOo > need to fulfill in order to gain the respect of serious business users. > One of the reasons that Mozilla Firefox is so successful i.t.o. market > growth is the availability of its plug-ins. > > Win one business manager and you win hundreds of corporate users.
Hi Lourens As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Tuesday 25 January 2005 11:35, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > > You may find the following URL's of value for a Solver solution: > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8808 > > http://solver.linuxml.com > > Some users have commented that the LPSolver is actually better > than the MS Excel one, but I have never used either. > > There is a solver "plugin" available for Linux, and shortly > other platforms also, which emulates, and sometimes outperforms, > the MS Excel Solver software. Have a look at LPSolver here: > > http://solver.linuxml.com Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
