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Am I way off base, or is there a HUGE potential market for a new spreadsheet program compatible with xls/xlsx? It can't be that hard to make one, can it? (Fam
by A_D_E_P_T 1y ago
Am I way off base, or is there a HUGE potential market for a new spreadsheet program compatible with xls/xlsx?
It can't be that hard to make one, can it? (Famous last words, I know...)
- ironman1478 1y agoLibreOffice Calc can do this already. The main issue is the collaboration aspect of LibreOffice. I imagine though with funding LibreOffice can be upgraded to do this. If countries are already trying to migrate away from US tech, they could invest in this.
- rubenvanwyk 1y agoI know actually that LibreOffice specifically has lamented xlsx, apparently it’s a hard file format to design for.
- cassepipe 1y agoI personally think the future is a database like postgres or sqlite that is know to be very robust with a nice calc frontend. I believe Mathesar is on it. Watching them closely. Why ? Because falling back to SQL for big data would ne just great. Excel and Google Sheets seems to struggle.
- notepad0x90 1y agothe spreadsheet part is done already. the real power of excel these days is M365 cloud integration. Gsuite and Zoho try to compete but they don't come close.
- bfkwlfkjf 1y agoI think that's the wrong approach. No matter how hard or easy it is, Microsoft controls it and do you'll be putting huge amounts of effort forever, whereas they can break your stuff with little effort. Losing battle.