google spreadsheet

[russdev]

Very impressed...

very very impressed

only thing offer few more formats to save and upload and will be really good and few of excel shortcuts dont work.

But i am really impressed...

Russ

[Geoff]

Also look at Writely (an online AJAX wordprocessor).

http://www.writely.com/

I think google will be hosting this too soon as a companion service.

[russdev]

ar got writely but never really got into it mainly but seem to have got better now google took over..

next one for google is powerpoint...

Russ

[webman]

Yep, I'm pretty impressed with Google Spreadsheet as well. If only RM made something like this for the damn QCA testing malarky.

[russdev]

to be fare rm havnt got googles server farm so rm couldnt run something like this

when qca provide rm with money to do this

" * 719 racks
* 63,272 machines
* 126,544 CPUs
* 253 THz of processing power
* 126,544 GB (approx. 123.58 TB) of RAM
* 5,062 TB (approx. 4.77 PB) of hard drive space"

Which was est of the google server farm in 2004........

Russ

[webman]

Hmm.. but Google server the whole world and QCA a bunch of UK schools. Still, even then - the DPS communicates with the local APS so I wouldn't have thought it'd be more technically difficult to run a web-based AJAXed interface.

[Geoff]

Also google runs on Linux, which gives them a slightly unfair advantage over RM.

[mark]

With google's email for schools then an online office suite which will presumably come in a box that sita on your network... they're set to take over the world!

[russdev]

Hmm.. but Google server the whole world and QCA a bunch of UK schools. Still, even then - the DPS communicates with the local APS so I wouldn't have thought it'd be more technically difficult to run a web-based AJAXed interface.

while going off topic web would nerver work due to amount of data transfer to network slow now imagine what would be like with web front. Main thing being that in google spreadsheet only need to record what has changed and keep last few data transfers qca have got to keep lot.

web nevere going to work in 10000 years

anyway to go back on topic when google presentation due out


russ

[SimpleSi]

Tried uploading a spreadsheet from my PocketPC - wouldn't recognise it as a valid spreadsheet.

regards
Simomn

[ico2]

Google havent sent me a link yet I added my address to be sent one...

[russdev]

it takes a while also make sure you use gmail account

russell

[ico2]

it takes a while also make sure you use gmail account

Sent a week or so ago (when it was first mentioned on slashdot) from my gmail account.
Maybe they ignored requests on that day due to high volume of "just curious" people coming from slashdot?

[Andrew_C]

Got mine practically by return. Seems to work OK so far, just firking about though...

[CyberNerd]

Sent a week or so ago (when it was first mentioned on slashdot) from my gmail account.
Maybe they ignored requests on that day due to high volume of "just curious" people coming from slashdot?

got mine today, not instantly though. Maybe they just have trouble sending to gmail. err