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> VisiCalc Developer Creates WikiCalc Variation (LinuxInsider.com)
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post Sat 1st July 2006, 12:12pm
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Dan Bricklin is going back to the future with a new software program. Bricklin, the legendary Newton developer of the VisiCalc spreadsheet software that revolutionized the personal computer industry, is now beta testing a new spreadsheet program that people will eventually get for free.

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Dan Bricklin is going back to the future with a new software program. Bricklin, the legendary Newton developer of the VisiCalc spreadsheet software that revolutionized the personal computer industry, is now beta testing a new spreadsheet program that people will eventually get for free.

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Online demo of the software...

This is really impressive, actually. Corporate IT managers looking to implement collaborative workflow systems are going to want to take a good look at this - it's vastly more capable and powerful for publishing tabular info and charts than MediaWiki alone... especially since tabular presentation has always been one of MediaWiki's weak points. And it also takes advantage of Excel's user-familiarity factor, which removes a big potential objection.

I wonder what the underlying data structures look like? If it can integrate easily with sales and accounting systems, this could really challenge, maybe even vanquish, MediaWiki in the corporate market, especially for global-reach retail franchisers, and OEM's that work through independent distributors.

I'm surprised Bricklin is making it open source! I guess some people are just true believers, come hell or high water.
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