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cookiengineeryesterday at 10:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

> LibreOffice Calc

Mentioning libreoffice as competitor to Excel and Access is like you haven't understood the market, at all.

Excel is a cross department business automation database, which can sync/pull/push datasets across filesystems and networks.

VBA is the single most used language in Enterprise because it allows to automate pretty much any financial workflow. And more importantly: automated by non-programmers.

Libreoffice is made for private users, and that's not the same users that VBA powered office documents have.


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rolphyesterday at 10:41 PM

are you trying to say that i cant use libre, to automate, share, or collaborate datasets across a network?

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/lo/text/sbasic/shared/vb...

are you trying to say its too hard to step into libre from VBS?

https://libreoffice-basic-reference.readthedocs.io/en/latest...

you can stay with MS if you want, but really you dont have to.

also i didnt mention libre as competitor, but as replacement.

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vrganjyesterday at 11:05 PM

The French government decided on Grist as their replacement. It looks pretty promising: https://www.getgrist.com/