Comments on: Microsoft Mac Business Unit - Open Source Or Die? http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/08/10/microsoft-mac-business-unit-open-source-or-die/ Simon Brocklehurst's Technology Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:48:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: simon http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/08/10/microsoft-mac-business-unit-open-source-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-4885 simon Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:27:19 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=167#comment-4885 I think VBA is going to be missed by more than MS certified techies. In fact, it's maybe almost the opposite of that - VBA is mainly used by non-techies. It's often used by people in companies to solve problems that need to be solved, but where the IT department doesn't have the resources to get involved. There are a lot of such problems. It's true the Mac OS X has great scripting capabilities. However, many companies with Mac OS on the desktop need to be able to send and receive documents (with VBA Macros) to companies that have Windows on the desktop. Thus, the need to interoperate is key. The question is: what percentage of companies that use Office:Mac need produce and consume documents for/from the Windows world? I suspect that percentage is much higher than many people think. I'm constantly surprised by just how many companies use VBA, and more than that, actually have mission-critical processes that rely on it. I think VBA is going to be missed by more than MS certified techies. In fact, it’s maybe almost the opposite of that - VBA is mainly used by non-techies. It’s often used by people in companies to solve problems that need to be solved, but where the IT department doesn’t have the resources to get involved. There are a lot of such problems.

It’s true the Mac OS X has great scripting capabilities. However, many companies with Mac OS on the desktop need to be able to send and receive documents (with VBA Macros) to companies that have Windows on the desktop. Thus, the need to interoperate is key. The question is: what percentage of companies that use Office:Mac need produce and consume documents for/from the Windows world?

I suspect that percentage is much higher than many people think. I’m constantly surprised by just how many companies use VBA, and more than that, actually have mission-critical processes that rely on it.

]]> By: Asam Bashir http://www.psynixis.com/blog/2006/08/10/microsoft-mac-business-unit-open-source-or-die/comment-page-1/#comment-4882 Asam Bashir Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:53:31 +0000 http://www.psynixis.com/blog/?p=167#comment-4882 Apple is certainly not counting on them and I can imagine further developments to Pages 2.0 with addition of a sophisticated spreadsheet alternative. Mac OS X has far more sophisticated methods for work flow with Apple scripts and Automator functions built in to the OS - VBA is not going to be missed by most apart from MS certified techies.... Apple is certainly not counting on them and I can imagine further developments to Pages 2.0 with addition of a sophisticated spreadsheet alternative.

Mac OS X has far more sophisticated methods for work flow with Apple scripts and Automator functions built in to the OS - VBA is not going to be missed by most apart from MS certified techies….

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