One thing this discussion is missing is that of the problem of legacy
business apps. I have worked for many companies where my contract was to
maintain or extend their business apps. based on M$Office Excel or Word.
These applications sometimes run to a few hundred lines of code in their
macro language. The Office macro language has evolved over the years to
the current VBA, a super set of Visual Basic. Both Word and Excel 97 are
backward compatible with their old macro languages. Any office suite
which cannot run these legacy business applications will be very slow to
replace M$Office. Macro languages are important. Remember the 2 year
court fight between Lotus and Borland over the 123 macros? Of course,
they both lost to Excel, but that was due to some *very* poor business
decisions on Lotus' part.
Karl
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