[Glastonbury] "An Open Source Horror Story" article....

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:59:08PM +0000, Kelvin McNulty wrote:
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> 
> I use very simple things for my personal admin - simple text files that I can 
> edit in a trice from the command line. The one tool that I use for complex 
> admin is Microsoft Excel, but with the help of Crossover Office I am running 
> that on Linux. I have made a few efforts to switch to OpenOffice.org, but 
> every time I try to open one of my Excel double entry ledger accounts files 
> with OOo, it crashes. So I would have to start again working up to a format 
> that would not crash, having to do heaps of installs of updated versions on 
> the many different computers that I use (including client's computers).
> 
Gnumeric is your friend :)

Andy