[Novalug] Excel calculation error - oppty for OOo?

[Kevin Chin]

Thanks for the correction.
--Kc


On 10/3/07, Keith Casey <mailinglists at caseysoftware.com> wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> --
> D. Keith Casey Jr.
> CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC
> http://CaseySoftware.com
>
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