Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> UK children's charity says goodbye to Excel
>
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> | Cognos TM1 will house the charity's budgeting and financial planning
> | data currently held on 2,000 Excel spreadsheets.
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> http://www.computerbusinessreview.com
article_news.asp?guid=98CC4FA6-BE3D-487F-B5C2-CAAE1489A516
>
> It wasn't doing the maths correctly anyway.
>
> Additionally, Microsoft, being the greedy corporating always in need to
> inflate revenue and please investors, suddenly ceased to give Office to UK
> charities. That happened months ago. Their data is now locked in and
> Microsoft demands big money. It's all somewhere in The Register...
> Microsoft 'helped' charities... getting 'addicted' (locked in)... later it
> came to 'collect' (references below).
That is fscking disgusting!
All charities should get together and ban micoshaft products
and stick with open source.
http://www.livecdlist.com
http://www.distrowatch.com
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