Study Recommends Gnumeric Over MS Excel 86
Jody Goldberg writes "A recent study of analytic quality, and responsiveness to problems strongly preferred Gnumeric in place of MS Excel. With new problems popping up in Office XP the case for spreadsheet users to migrate is only getting stronger.
In some related Gnumeric quickies, a new stable version 1.2.6 was released, and Open has done an interview with the Maintainer."
Re:I use excel all day (Score:3, Informative)
Other than VBA stuff i don't think there is anything excel does that gnumeric can't.
Get garnome! (Score:3, Informative)
Garnome 0.30.1 was just released and it features the latest version of Gnome (2.5.5), The new, non ugly file dialog (but not all programs use it yet) and of course, Gnome Applications, including Gnumeric 1.2.6.
It is designed for IA-32 Gnu/Linux, but it should work on most OS's. Download it now [gnome.org].
And if you liked the power of garnome, you may be interested in the power of Gentoo Linux [gentoo.org], which is like garnome for your entire distribution!
Err... (Score:4, Informative)
On the other hand, when doing a study, frequently you *do* want to be able to use the same seed to produce exactly the same results. This is a legitimate failing in gnumeric. Not all random numbers are created equal.
For what it's worth, I did (simple) analysis of a large set of random number generators for a high school science fair project. The Microsoft RNG (which has been used ever since at least early QBASIC days) is pretty decent, at least from a uniformity standpoint.
Re:I use excel all day (Score:3, Informative)
Gnumeric is scriptable with Python.
Re:Gnumeric 0wns (Score:4, Informative)
If you take a look at linked page, you'd see:
Re:Stupid Rant (Score:2, Informative)
Granted, you can't use it for commercial purposes, but it's fine for home users that just need to read / write Word and Excel files. The Academic version in retail outlets no longer requires you to provide proof-of-acadmic-status. You just pick it off the shelf, and pay for it at the register.
However, I can't justify a constant upgrade cycle of $150 per version, especially considering how little changes with each revision. But if you're buying a new PC, it's not so bad (damn that product activation).
P.S.
Office: Mac ver. X is by far the best Office I've used on any platform.
Re:Solver:? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Err... (Score:3, Informative)