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I am Google Apps addict but they still don't have a web-based Excel-killer. I think that when bankers and corporates start using Google apps to build their fina
by richardburton 15y ago
I am Google Apps addict but they still don't have a web-based Excel-killer. I think that when bankers and corporates start using Google apps to build their financial models then Microsoft should worry.
- ig1 15y agoEven for startup business modelling I'd rather use a fifteen year old version of Lotus 1-2-3 than Google Apps. Their spreadsheet is definitely a second-tier product.
- chollida1 15y agoThis is true. I've seen entire hedge funds run on excel sheets. Our traders do alot of trading right out of excel sheets with custom C# addin's.
- jrockway 15y agoThis is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions. (Someone I work with created a "market data bus" using Excel. It had the side effect of preventing Outlook from receiving email while it was running, so you had to have two machines if you wanted to read email AND get market data via this method. Now that's shoddy software engineering.)
- chollida1 15y ago> This is not the intended use case for Excel. Rather, it's a product of 10 years of bad decisions leading to more bad decisions. This is true :)