Re: [Sheflug] Re: Office apps

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 31 Jul 2002 5:18 pm, stephen.tozer-loft [at] sth.nhs.uk wrote:

> We aint secretaries.  I know you'll all hate me for saying it but Excel is
> a good thing.  NHS IT departments seem to be getting less and less
> interested in looking at anything thats not made by micro$oft.  Physicists
> here (mostly me) have developed a whole suite of VB macros for Excel and
> Word which are absolutely mission (=patient) critical.  We get around the

Just out of interest, what kind of things are they for?

A lot of the Linux office stuff (e.g. KSpread, Gnumeric) is somewhat biased 
towards the business side of things e.g. lots of statistical functions, but 
less in the way of engineering and scientific functions. For real scientific 
computation in the past I have used MATLAB (in actual fact Octave, a free 
work-a-like), which may be too mathematical for some tastes.
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