On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Andreas Guelzow <[email protected]> wrote: > "but it died out" & "failed apparently due to lack of popularity". > Shouldn't this tell us something? > > Andreas
Worthy new ideas frequently fail to catch on for various political, social, and economic reasons. I try to judge ideas based on their merits, not whether they failed to become fads at particular points in history. I don't know how profitable Quantrix is, but they've been improving their product for the past several years at least. In any case, though, do you deny that there are deep flaws in the unstructured approach to spreadsheet use when the spreadsheet is large (contains many different data series) and complex (interrelates those series in, indeed, multi-dimensional ways)? Javelin and Lotus Improv failed in the late 80s / early 90s. Those were early days for spreadsheets; the scale, complexity, and pervasiveness of their use has greatly increased since then. Personally, if it were feasible to do so I'd scarcely ever use a traditional spreadsheet like Gnumeric again. I'd use something like Quantrix. I say this as a professional financial analyst who uses spreadsheets for modeling almost every day of my working life, and as someone who recognizes the sense of adding Quantrix-like functionality to the best existing free spreadsheet application instead of going off and implementing it somewhere else. Jonathan _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
