Google Spreadsheets is VB/DBase/FoxPro for the web and like them, you can build a nice-sized product or company and upgrade to a "real" database for the tables

Google Spreadsheets is VB/DBase/FoxPro for the web and like them, you can build a nice-sized product or company and upgrade to a "real" database for the tables you need, e.g. enterprise search on SOLR/Lucene. Specifically, you get super flexible, shareable, cheap cloud database with built-in UI, APIs, version and access control and more. Little or no training required. My company has over 3,000 sheets (7,500+ worksheets) and over 100 "types" of tables. Compared with companies that used traditional RDBMS+app architectures, we've saved big $ between data entry and engineering. It allowed us to skip VC financing and win our market bootstrapping to profitability. hope this helps, adam world's leading source for specialty/artisan products bbfdirect.com get office snacks! bbfdirect.com/office-snacks