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From: Gordon on 15 Jan 2010 17:06 Conor wrote: > In article <20100115091557.2116.51145.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... >> >> Conor wrote: >> >> > Excel is the only thing that counts. >> >> No - Excel is the only thing that businesses have been conned into >> using... > > Not really. When it came out, there wasn't anything that equalled it. It > won based on its own merits. > Just shows how LITTLE you know. Lotus 123 was as good as Excel if not better. "Scenarios" were excellent - far better than anything Excel still has. MS sneaked Excel in by offering FREE copies of Office with server OSs.
From: Gordon on 15 Jan 2010 17:09 Conor wrote: > In article <pan.2010.01.14.22.38.12.518987(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk>, Phil > Stovell says... > >> The UK Government used to have (may still have) a policy of only using >> software that is ISO standards compliant. OO is, I'm not sure about MSO. > > UK Govt runs on MSO. > Which is NOT ISO certified.
From: Gordon on 15 Jan 2010 17:11 Conor wrote: >> > It doesn't have to. MSO is the defacto standard, No - it's what MS has imposed. It's not any sort of "standard" at all.
From: JEDIDIAH on 15 Jan 2010 17:26 On 2010-01-15, Gordon <gbplinux(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Conor wrote: > >> In article <20100115091557.2116.51145.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... >>> >>> Conor wrote: >>> >>> > Excel is the only thing that counts. >>> >>> No - Excel is the only thing that businesses have been conned into >>> using... >> >> Not really. When it came out, there wasn't anything that equalled it. It >> won based on its own merits. >> > > Just shows how LITTLE you know. > Lotus 123 was as good as Excel if not better. "Scenarios" were excellent > - far better than anything Excel still has. > MS sneaked Excel in by offering FREE copies of Office with server OSs. ....I wouldn't be surprised if the last DOS version of 123 was more than what most people would ever need (with notable exception of the GUI being bolted on top of course). -- Nothing quite gives you an understanding of Oracle's ||| continued popularity as does an attempt to do some / | \ simple date manipulations in postgres.
From: RonB on 15 Jan 2010 18:18
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:06:38 +0000, Gordon wrote: > Just shows how LITTLE you know. > Lotus 123 was as good as Excel if not better. "Scenarios" were excellent > - far better than anything Excel still has. MS sneaked Excel in by > offering FREE copies of Office with server OSs. And, unfortunately, Lotus was distracted for a long time with the lawsuit against Borland. -- RonB "There's a story there...somewhere" |