As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't b

As much as I hate the rest of Office, I have to agree that Excel is way ahead of any other spreadsheet software I've ever used. That's not to say it couldn't be dislodged by something better - there's definitely a niche without a decent solution somewhere between an Excel sheet loaded with convoluted VLOOKUPs and a writing something custom with an SQL interface to a database. I'd bet you could find a huge market for something with an interface like Excel but easily able to consistently parse/transform/create new tables.