[Novalug] Excel calculation error - oppty for OOo?
Keith Casey
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Wed Oct 3 09:18:49 EDT 2007
On 10/3/07, Kevin Chin <kevinchin5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if you guys saw this or not, but there was a calculation error
> discovered in Microsoft Excel. It may not be "enough" for everybody, but I
> know of at least one customer (a "brand name", pretty large customer,
> actually) who decided that it WAS enough to want to deploy OpenOffice.org as
> a "backup" application to their Windows desktops.
Actually, it's a bit more subtle than that... it's not really a
*calculation* error, it's a display error. Joel Spolsky wrote on it
last week:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
kc (not the same as the other one)
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D. Keith Casey Jr.
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