What are the major spreadsheet programs?
What are the major spreadsheet programs?
1. Do you have any figures on market share for spreadsheet products? My
preliminary research indicates that the current market is
dominated by the Big Three: Excel, 1-2-3 and Quattro. Is that correct?
Is there a fourth contender?
The market is dominated by Microsoft Excel. It has the dominant market
share. My guess is more than 60% ... but Market Share is hard to
calculate because IBM gives away copies of Lotus 1-2-3 with some
systems. The majority of serious spreadsheet users are Excel users.
2. Are there any shareware spreadsheets.
Check my page on Spreadsheet Links at
http://dssresources.COM/spreadsheets/spreadsheet.html
Spreadheet shareware is not a significant factor in the market in my
opinion.
3. What are the "must-have" features that any spreadsheet needs to
feature these days?
The key features needed are the capability to export as HTML, create
pivot tables, provide a full set of built in functions, and
sophisticated charting.
4. What is lacking in today's applications? What's the single biggest
improvement needed?
I only use Excel and Lotus 1-2-3. I don't think much is lacking ... Web
integration is much better in Excel 2000 than in Excel 97, but many
Microsoft specific HTML tags are added that make it hard to edit the
exported Web pages in an HTML editor. You will need to make all changes
in Excel and others can import your Web document back into Excel.
5. Is anyone offering a spreadsheet as part of an ASP package?
I don't know. I don't think application service providers need to
provide spreadsheet applications. Microsoft may try if ASPs catch on.
6. Which spreadsheet do you personally favor and why?
Microsoft Excel ... I have used it for 15 years ... first on the
Macintosh and now with Windows. Why? It works.