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by traeblain 4810 days ago
Completely disagree. That's what is so great about DataNitro's tool to begin with. You get people using a more powerful tool...in the tool they most often use (Excel), then you are off.

Another reason is that Python is a great alternative to mathematical tools like MatLab, Maple, etc. And people's experience with these are most commonly in Windows. Having a python windows environment is key. I don't know how many people I've been able to get them to dump MatLab by showing them python and Spyder.