Excel dominates the world of number crunching. Want to change that? You can’t.

Imagine proposing an alternative for your organization that has been using Excel for two decades. Will every single sheet and workbook translate perfectly? If not, not good enough for dealing with numbers. This is why MS never fucks around with Excel. The risk/reward calculation (heh) is not a fit for open source spreadsheets.

the world of number crunching

Weird, I’ve never heard of excel being used on HPC systems