Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 17, 2003 11:39 PM
I would imagine that the Excel macros would have to be rewritten into OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet macros. From what I have briefly seen, they are very similar.
As for Access databases, they have always been considered wasteful and redundant since they are almost always populated with data that already exists in a bigger, more complete database. It's just more efficient to query the bigger database directly, rather than create an Access database, fill it with existing data, and then query the data in Access.
I don't mean to sound as if I'm knocking your IT procedures. You know what works best for your company. It's just that there are ways and reasons to switch to open source, and switching will probably make your business more efficient too.
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Re:vb and access
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 17, 2003 11:39 PMAs for Access databases, they have always been considered wasteful and redundant since they are almost always populated with data that already exists in a bigger, more complete database. It's just more efficient to query the bigger database directly, rather than create an Access database, fill it with existing data, and then query the data in Access.
I don't mean to sound as if I'm knocking your IT procedures. You know what works best for your company. It's just that there are ways and reasons to switch to open source, and switching will probably make your business more efficient too.
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