Re: Adding structure, à l a "multidimensional spreadsheets"

[bill lam <cbill lam gmail com>]

Сбт, 17 Июл 2010, Andreas Guelzow писал(а):
> On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 01:20 -0400, Jonathan DePeri wrote:
> > Gnumeric, most of its competitors, is based on the deeply-flawed
> > approach of a structureless expanse of cells. Now, there have been
> > "multidimensional spreadsheets" whose paradigm was to operate on
> > different objects -- time series, data tables, etc. -- using formulas
> > to relate the objects to one another without even bothering with the
> > expanse of cells that at any rate often results only in duplication
> > and errors. Thus data, formulas, and presentation were decoupled, and
> > great gains in productivity were possible. A number of these issues is
> > discussed at http://cbbrowne.com/info/spreadsheets.html -- but of
> > course, we're all familiar with them.
> >
> > A particularly good product was produced by Javelin Software
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javelin_Software), but it died out.
> > Lotus Improv (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv) tried the
> > same approach, but also failed apparently due to lack of popularity.
> > The only similar product in existence today appears to be Quantrix
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantrix); cf. the demo and tutorial at
> > http://www.quantrix.com/Quantrix_Video_Demos.htm?url_text=Product_Tours.
> >
> > Anybody thought about this? We could add the whole structured,
> > data/model/presentation-decoupled paradigm to Gnumeric. Who said it
> > has to be just a traditional spreadsheet?
>
> "but it died out" & "failed apparently due to lack of popularity".
> Shouldn't this tell us something?

He should mention IBM/congos, adaytum planning which is a
multi-million business in finance industry.  But that is a niche
market very few outsiders would interest.

-- 
regards,
====================================================
GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3