FAQ4 - Would true north usa support multiple spreadsheet/office platforms if the market were more evenly split?

Absolutely Not.

Our business model reasons that users of Lotus or QuatroPro should not bear the hidden costs of application consultants who must dedicate a significant portion of their non billable hours and infrastructure staying current with technological advances and idiosyncrasies of different spreadsheet vendors.

There is no shortage of consultants in today’s world and a customer should be able to retain someone specifically focused on their needs.

This philosophy is representative of the fact that we are committed to remaining a small and highly focused consulting practice. Organizations today tend to standardize on office tools and it is rare to come upon customers requiring support of two different office suites. In the cases where this does occur customers are usually in the process of converting their applications from one platform to another.

We also want to say that the huge success and shear performance of Excel is not, in our opinion, coincidentally related to the fact that Microsoft operating systems also support the vast majority of all Excel and MS office installations. You only have to enjoy the dazzling response of Excel's Pivot Tables one time in order to muse “how can it do that so fast?”. We think there is a reason.

FAQ4 - Would true north usa support multiple spreadsheet/office platforms if the market were more evenly split?

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