[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[Brian]

On Sunday 18 November 2007 06:21:36 pm Clinton V. Weiss wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2007 8:34 PM, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 2007-11-17, Monsieur Clinton V. Weiss a ecrit:
> > So let me get this right. You're complaining that OpenOffice was not
> > as robust as Excel in opening a complex *Excel* spreadsheet with tons
> > of embedded *Excel* formulas, and this for a spreadsheet that was
> > created with a library (JExcelApi) that was designed to "read, write
> > and modify Excel spreadsheets" (<http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/>)?
> > All I can say is: wow.
>
> I'm complaining that an open source alternative that claims to support
> Excel and it's formulas shouldn't need to be so inefficient.  None of
> the formulas used were custom, they were all standard Excel formulas
> such as vlookup, sum, etc. etc.
>

If they're all standard formulas, I wonder how other non-java-bloated 
alternatives would fare (e.g, gnumeric, koffice).  

-- 
Brian
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