You’re right, I did. But the question was in relation to things that prevent adoption to Linux. Excel isn’t one of them, as Office 365 is available as a web version, but there are also many entirely compatible alternatives.
As for Adobe, I don’t know what software of theirs is used by enterprises. Unless you mean Acrobat, which again there are better alternatives that target the enterprise. I actually haven’t worked at a company that’s used Adobe products in over 10 years.
Using Drools rules, software written by Red Hat, you are unable to create drools decision tables that work properly with Kogito (another software written by red hat) with anything other than Excel. That includes LibreOffice and OpenOffice.
Drools is developed and maintained by the Apache Foundation. It’s FOSS software (Free and Open Source Software). Red Hat is the main sponsor of the project and the flagship product using Drools is Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss).
From the Drools docs:
Drools supports managing rules in a spreadsheet format. Supported formats are Excel (XLS), and CSV, which means that a variety of spreadsheet programs (such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc amongst others) can be utilized.
Software devs use it
I am a software dev, and I’ve used JBoss in the past. I can promise you that it’s not limited to Excel in the least. In fact, Drools isn’t even primarily designed for spreadsheets, and it’s generally deployed on Linux servers.
As it is right now I ask you to find a single enterprise company that doesn’t have either of those in use on their systems somewhere.
This is a valid point, but not because they can’t operate without them. It’s almost always because of ignorance of better alternatives, upper management comfort zone, and billions of dollars of marketing from Microsoft and Adobe for over 20 years.
And I’m not sure what you’re talking about in regards to “studios”.
Studios as in Hollywood studios and VFX Houses. Some of them might use Adobe stuff here and there, but the “serious” stuff isn’t done with Adobe.
You’re right, I did. But the question was in relation to things that prevent adoption to Linux. Excel isn’t one of them, as Office 365 is available as a web version, but there are also many entirely compatible alternatives.
As for Adobe, I don’t know what software of theirs is used by enterprises. Unless you mean Acrobat, which again there are better alternatives that target the enterprise. I actually haven’t worked at a company that’s used Adobe products in over 10 years.
Drools is developed and maintained by the Apache Foundation. It’s FOSS software (Free and Open Source Software). Red Hat is the main sponsor of the project and the flagship product using Drools is Red Hat Decision Manager (formerly JBoss).
From the Drools docs:
Drools supports managing rules in a spreadsheet format. Supported formats are Excel (XLS), and CSV, which means that a variety of spreadsheet programs (such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org Calc amongst others) can be utilized.
I am a software dev, and I’ve used JBoss in the past. I can promise you that it’s not limited to Excel in the least. In fact, Drools isn’t even primarily designed for spreadsheets, and it’s generally deployed on Linux servers.
This is a valid point, but not because they can’t operate without them. It’s almost always because of ignorance of better alternatives, upper management comfort zone, and billions of dollars of marketing from Microsoft and Adobe for over 20 years.
Studios as in Hollywood studios and VFX Houses. Some of them might use Adobe stuff here and there, but the “serious” stuff isn’t done with Adobe.