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Enterprise open source Toolkit

Story: Can Linux break into banks?

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Posted by: Mitch 74 (Monday 12 September 2005, 1:20 PM)

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Considering VBA is OWNED by Microsoft (meaning no-one but MS has the right to write a VBA interpreter) and that spreadsheet applications like OOo Calc or GNUmeric can write/read/execute macros in starbasic, beanshell, javascript or perl, which one is best? While Excel did an excellent ripoff of Lotus and expanded upon it quite a bit, don't think for a second that it's the only one out there!

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