wikiCalc update
December 29, 2005
Anticipating the naysayers, I got in touch with Dan Bricklin on the status of wikiCalc . Here’s his reply:
"I hope to have the next alpha release in a week or two. I’ll see. I’m deep into Ajax to make the cell editing feel more like a client-side app, and when I have that working I’ll do a release. It will have multi-platform working (Linux, Mac, server-side CGI and mod_perl), multi-user with login/logout, and more. Still to be done: Undo, copy/delete/etc page, link to page on site, copy between pages, export, and other cleanups.
There’s so much — this is taking a long time. But it’s coming out better than I expected."
Many people are of the view that new products should be released little and often. I have a lot of sympathy with that view in many application areas. This is not one of them.
I’d rather have an app I can road test against competitors to see whether the functionality is what I am likely to need before I consider jumping ship. So I’ll be happy to wait and see what Dan serves up.
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