Excel on Linux

[rozef]

Hi,

I am asking if active forms work as well on Oppen Office with different linux distributor as in Microsoft Office.

Thank you for sharing your experiment.

[David Usherwood]

Unless I'm _very_ mistaken, XLAs don't work with Open Office - so TM1 Perspectives, being an XLA, won't work. A fortiori, Active Forms won't work either.

[jim wood]

Now that IBM are using Open Office themslves to avoid paying Microsoft any money I can't see a version of TM1 that works on open being too far away. It might be something for the next user conference. I think the question has been asked before and the answer has always been "We are thinking about it".

[rozef]

yes, it's look impossible

although in official documentation, TM1 Perspectives is annouced compatible with UNIX...

[Michel Zijlema]

yes, it's look impossible

although in official documentation, TM1 Perspectives is annouced compatible with UNIX...

What documentation are you referring to? If you look at the IBM website you will see there is no reference to UNIX for Perspectives.

TM1 Client/Perspectives is an Excel add-in, not an Open Office Calc plug-in. If you want to have a TM1 like tool that can be used with Open Office you should have a look at PALO.

Michel

[rozef]

in "Installation of TM1on UNIX" on IBM TM1 documentation web site

[jim wood]

As Michel said, the client is not Unix compliant but the server side software is. We run our server instances on Unix 10 64-bit,

Jim.