[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 76047] FILESAVE: Links to external data not preserved for XLSX

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76047

--- Comment #40 from Julien Nabet <serval2412 at yahoo.fr> ---
(In reply to egc from comment #39)
> ....
> 
> Glad you're having fun ... As i'm not a programmer my only choice is it now
> to convert all the calc documents to the other office package already in use
> in the company.
Please read what several people indicated, you can:
- wait
- fix it yourself
OR
- pay someone to do it.

For the rest, you can't convince your company to stick on LO just because you
like it. You/your company must consider ads/cons.
ads:
- it's free
- you can fix the bugs or pay someone to fix the bugs since it's open source
- multi envs (but I suppose most companies don't care since they use Windows
and when they use Linux, it's rather for servers where Office suites are not so
used, except for batch treatments for some cases)
- some relevant features for you/your company may be present in LO exclusively

cons:
- less mature than other Office suites (like Ms) (at least from my opinion)
- more difficult to have support
- depending what module you use, you may undergo lots of bugs (eg: use of
Firebird in Base is a real pb for the moment)
- some relevant features for you/your company may be lacking in LO

So if you and your company:
- don't want/can't pay for bug fixes
- can't fix bug yourselves
- can't wait anymore (I agree 6 years is too long)
=> you should consider migrating.
Now, I suppose you and your company already know that migrating has also a
cost:
- license (except if you choose a free Office suite)/support
- time consuming for IT people who'll do the migration and have to deal with
potential incompatibilities
- user training (even if the interfaces are quite similar, there are always
differences)

So perhaps it may be relevant to compare cost migration and cost to pay someone
to fix this bug and other bugs which are blocking for you.

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