Writing to ms excel

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:12:01 +0200, Marin Brkic wrote:

> I remember an older coleague who said; "open, free and whatever licence
> type ...  software is free, only up to some amount of $$/per hour".
> After that you just want things to work, and if they don't work, there
> are people who are paid $/per hour to make it work. 

And that applies *exactly* the same to Excel as OpenOffice, except that 
you're not paying the cost for the software and the licences and tracking 
the licences.

If you can find a package that "just works" for writing to Excel, great. 
Otherwise you have to build it yourself. And that's when you have to 
decide whether you want to spend 40 hours of programmer time (less than 
one programmer-week) trying to get write support for Excel in order to 
save two hours of support time for OpenOffice.



-- 
Steven