[Leaplist] microsoft / novell -- Can I get a STFU?

[Damien McKenna]

On 11/6/06 11:09 AM, William Warren
<hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
> actually I don't have any clients that embed other office apps inside
> other office apps.

You don't need to be embedding apps within each other, there are other
limitations.

> The only hangup is access on my clients.  Once i can get access
> compatibility then ms office is gone..:)

You'll never get Access compatibility.  Rewrite the apps using Ruby-on-Rails
or something similar.

> I'm sure there's a ton of businesses that do that horrid embedding
> thing.  That's a major security issue as well as one way MS gets you
> locked in..:)

Yep.

> Actually my invoices were originally made inside Excel97 before i knew
> about OO.  Now that same document has been ported to OO in Office mode
> and the macros run just fine.  I even get the same warnings about it as
> i did in excel.  Now i jsut export that to pdf inside OO and send the
> pdf to my clients..:)

Good to know.

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