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
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 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
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 to

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)
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 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