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Microsoft alternative: Nextcloud and Ionos develop open-source ‘Euro-Office’ (www.heise.de)
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Nextcloud, Ionos and other partners are developing an open-source office suite under the project name „Euro-Office“ as an alternative to the market-dominant Microsoft Office.

The two partners are not starting from scratch, but have forked the components of OnlyOffice available as open-source code and want to build on them. In the summer, the software is then intended to replace the previous office component Collabora in Nextcloud and the Ionos Nextcloud Workspace. A ‘technical preview’ is already available on GitHub.

While this is a good news, I think they should move from github, you know microslop copilot..

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[–] mysweat@ani.social 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (72 children)

Are there any actually good replacements for Excel? As an intermediate/advanced user, every alternative I've tried to date pales in comparison. I can't see anyone in my industry switching away from MS because of this, as things currently stand.

Edit: I didn't expect so many replies. I use Sync (I know, it sucks and is dead) and it didn't inform me I had replies, so I'm only just seeing them, apologies. Can't get to everyone though.

For those who think we're using Excel as a database, not really. Can't get into specifics regarding industry, but personally I use Excel daily for a variety of things, none of which is data entry. I build stuff to help calculate and solve issues; I'm not following a specific process in most scenarios. 🤷

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean ideally people should move away from spreadsheets altogether, keeping the data and the view and control layers mixed like that is kinda terrible and scales poorly for large data sets that require any serious transformation and computations, ideally your data should reside in a acid compliant database or some data lake for safety and ease of access, and then view and transformations should be handled by a separate software on top of that, at least this is how most companies that do big data analytics set things up, I know it's overkill for some small to medium company that has limited needs, but there has to be something better than putting data into cells and writing functions on top of that.

[–] mysweat@ani.social 1 points 12 hours ago

I'm not talking about uses of Excel as a serious database, though. 🤷

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