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Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by braderhart »

Analemma_ wrote: post #7
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

Why would you assume moving to GSuite is indicative of a trend toward open-source? You have even less control than with Office.

That is simply not true. Google has been a much stronger supporter of open source. Ever heard of Android? What about Kubernetes? Chromium?

Also, Google Docs supports exporting to ODS and other document formats... in addition to automatic conversion into Google Drive.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by aaronarduino »

Analemma_ wrote: post #7
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

Why would you assume moving to GSuite is indicative of a trend toward open-source? You have even less control than with Office.

I'm not assuming, I just hope that would be a trend.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by folbec »

Analemma_ wrote: post #7
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

Why would you assume moving to GSuite is indicative of a trend toward open-source? You have even less control than with Office.

As a massive POC, I'm happy it happens ... in another company than mine.

Time will tell if it works. If yes prices will go down for everybody.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by braderhart »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

What features are lacking specifically that LibreOffice, Google Sheets, or some other cross-platform solution doesn't have?

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by freehunter »

petilon wrote: post #3

Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat are the biggest national security threats to the USA. Russia can shut down energy, water and nuclear plants in the US, and that's mostly thanks to the security flaws in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat. In the interest of national security these products should be rewritten in Rust.

I was with you until the last sentence. Rust is not some magical "get out of bugs free" card. Bad programmers can write bad code in any language, and good programmers can write good code in any language.

We need to take security more seriously for our national security, I agree. More security-minded programming languages and frameworks may help with that. But rewriting them in Rust won't magically make their problems go away.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by matwood »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

I was coming here to say this. Nothing compares to Excel. The problem with replacing Excel is that it has thousands of features, and every user seems to use a different subset of those features.

With that said, a large majority of users can probably get by with what GSuite offers.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by Neracked »

It seems strange to use the present tense ("moves to GSuite", "ditches Microsoft") for a change that should take (at least) 5 to 10 years to implement.

Also, the change should be to move away from Microsoft Office in favor of tools suited for the tasks at hand (databases, project-management applications, bug trackers, requirement management tools...) and only migrate to GSuite for the subset of tasks where having an office suite makes sense.

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by braderhart »

petilon wrote: post #3

Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat are the biggest national security threats to the USA. Russia can shut down energy, water and nuclear plants in the US, and that's mostly thanks to the security flaws in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat. In the interest of national security these products should be rewritten in Rust.

You're actually not far off. They are the biggest threats. Have you ever noticed that all of Microsoft releases gets leaked by Russian groups like WZor? Russia has long been releasing betas and alphas of Windows before anyone else, and no one has questioned how or why?

Re: Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

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Post by aaronarduino »

golergka wrote: post #8
aaronarduino wrote: post #4

Hopefully, this will start a trend away from MS Office to other office programs. Preferably open source solutions.

I'm yet to find a single decent alternative to Excel. It's an excellent data modeling and analysis tool. And yes, I've learned Python, R and SQL, but these tools are not a replacement for the Excel workflow.

It is true, Excel has a wonderful workflow. Something open source with excel workflow combined with R and SQL would be nice.
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