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[Matt Heusser]

Well, you've got a point, allthough Socialtext has a few amenities that make
it a little nicer.  Wikis didn't replace MS Word, either.

--heusser

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 07:41 -0700, Matt Heusser wrote:
> > >Google Docs spreadsheet should be called a
> > >list-maker instead of a spreadsheet.
> > You try writing a spreadsheet engine in Javascript sometime!
>
> No, that really doesn't sound like fun. :)
>
> > Our team has Dan Bricklin, who invented the spreadsheet, Audrey Tang,
> > the lead comitter for the haskell project, and me, and I don't bring
> > down the average IQ of the team by all /that/ much. :-)
> > I'd be interested in what you want to do with Google Spreadsheets, and
> > if you /can/ do that with Sociacalc.
>
> My experience is that as soon as the document gets large performance
> gets *BAD* and even becomes unstable.  This may be [theoretically] a
> deficiency in the brower(s) but certainly counts against these as a
> "solution".  If I have a SS a couple of tabs with ~10,000 lines and I
> want to do some COUNTIF/VLOOKUP kind of stuff it is ugly.  And in the
> editor the lag when editing a large (even > 10 page document) is pretty
> bad.  I can't imagine that some enterprises provide that as a solution
> to their users [are the *also* providing M$-Office? If so, how real are
> the G-Doc deployments?]  From what I've seen I'd expect the IT
> department to be hung from the rafters if they tried to force users down
> that path.
>
> I'm just talking about G-docs, I've never tried Sociacalc.
>
> _____
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