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frank black wrote:
I originally thought Excel was one of M$'s only decent apps but after using it to do more than basic work I'm beginning to worry; if this is supposed to be the best then what's the worst we've got.
It was - it got feature bloat.
What alternatives are there out there?
If Open Office doesn't do what you need, I'm not up on the other free software spreadsheets, I used Applixware (which has been rebranded since as www.vistasource.com) at the Met Office which was a very good spreadsheet. Not sure if it had all the features you mentioned, but it'll have something as good or better. Applixware was built on big financial houses a lot of whom ran SUN workstations, and so it handles "realtime" data feeds nicely, as well as having sophisticated analysis features. Haven't played with it for a few years mind. Last time I looked development seemed to have switched mostly to doing thin client Office apps, rater than altering the core product.
The ability to interact with mySql, Oracle sounds interesting too. I'd like to use these really but there's not enough need to learn that much.
Everything does those two. In most cases it is hid behind a standard interface - you don't really care what RDBMS you are using for as long as it is robust and secure.
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