Re: [PLUG] A lesson for us all?

[Tobias DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

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On Oct 27, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Art Alexion wrote:
> That isn't a Linux problem, it is one you get doing almost any switch 
> to a significantly different piece of software.  I was always a 
> Borland QuattroPro (and Paradox) user.  When it looked like Novell and 
> then Corel were going to run my beloved spreadsheet and desktop DBMS 
> into the ground, I tried Excel and Access.  Things that used to take 
> me 5 minutes to do in QuattroPro take me 4 hours of tries before 
> giving up and switching back to an old QuattroPro version.  
> Ironically, I found the switch to gnumeric easier than the switch to 
> Excel.  So IMO it is not switching to Linux per se that causes these 
> problems in adaptation, but switching at all.

I do believe that's what I was saying. ;-)

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Tobias DiPasquale
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