"One of the biggest barriers to OpenOffice adoption is lack of macro interoperability. In the enterprise space generally the most mission‑critical macros exist in Excel spreadsheets. To eliminate or lower this barrier, clearly will ease adoption of OpenOffice.
MS's marketing would have you believe that OO.o is only useful for a few staff, for taking basic notes. One of [Novell]'s clients using OO.o on their bank, told us "There's only a tiny minority of people who can't use OO.o". And when pressed on that tiny minority — the sticking point was Excel macros, and having re-tested with Novell's VBA macro support, even that tiny minority looks like disappearing."
Email from Noel Power, OpenOffice Developer, Novell, June 2006
In all of the chapters so far, we've seen what you can do with a current version of OpenOffice.org. However, in this chapter we're going to have a look into the future of OpenOffice.org Calc, and we're going to see how to bring that future onto your...