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tracker1 a day ago

You don't use all it's feature, but if you need part of the 10% of features that Calc doesn't support, then your in a world of hurt.

When Calc gets the other 90% of the features Excel has, you also need to contend with word, Outlook, Visio and all the rest that Libre Office has a 0% solution for.

I support FLOSS... But pretending that anything else does enough for many orgs is delusional. There is work and pain to get through to even have a workable solution... And it won't be as good for a long while.

Massive cost savings are one of the bigger motivators... But that will be offset by the need for more internal staff.

d3Xt3r a day ago | parent [-]

I don't see why you would automatically be in "a world of hurt". Yes, you might be if you were to suddenly roll it out organisation wide without any testing, but no sane IT department would do that. This is why you have internal test groups and pilot groups. Once you identify the limitations, you scope out the missing features/issues, engage developers if need be, or look for alternate solutions. No one needs to get hurt.

tracker1 a day ago | parent [-]

Will you, personally, volunteer to resolve all the issues when trying to convert the older Excel based workflows?

What's your approach to getting out of Access, Visio and Outlook integrations?

d3Xt3r 21 hours ago | parent [-]

No, but that's only because I hate Excel. But I'm sure developers who don't hate it but also appreciate FOSS solutions might be interested, if the pay is good.

Access = LibreOffice Base

Visio = LibreOffice Impress

Outlook = Schleswig-Holstein already switched successfully to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird, I've not heard of them running into any major issues with this setup.

tracker1 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

And if the cost of (re)developing all the existing solutions exceeds the costs of MS licensing for a decade?