TFA boils down to: "I was emailed a proprietary format for an application that doesn't exist on my platform. I was able to find and install a third-party utility to convert it to something usable."
An astonishing tale of Linux superiority it's not, but I wouldn't say they jumped through hoops or spent hours researching anything here.
> [..] we managed to do something that is
> absolutely trivial for everybody else [...]
Where everybody else means anyone with a copy of Microsoft Access. Take it for what it is: guy's excited that he was able to use free tools to perform a task 1) that he thought would be much harder, and 2) potentially faster than his colleagues with the official tool. So what his conclusion's a bit of a leap?
TFA boils down to: "I was emailed a proprietary format for an application that doesn't exist on my platform. I was able to find and install a third-party utility to convert it to something usable."
An astonishing tale of Linux superiority it's not, but I wouldn't say they jumped through hoops or spent hours researching anything here.
Where everybody else means anyone with a copy of Microsoft Access. Take it for what it is: guy's excited that he was able to use free tools to perform a task 1) that he thought would be much harder, and 2) potentially faster than his colleagues with the official tool. So what his conclusion's a bit of a leap?