Gnumeric Turns 5 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Friday July 4, 2003 @11:03AM from the macros-still-not-supported dept.

Jody Goldberg writes "Five years ago, Miguel committed the first code for Gnumeric to CVS. In a testament to the quality of the code several lines are still in use. Since that time the project has grown to more than 300,000 lines and now supports all 325 worksheet functions in MS Excel, plus almost 100 more. This seemed like a good time to thank all the people who have contributed to Gnumeric over the years. We're about to start the run up to the the next stable release which will be out in a few weeks and we look forward to continuing work with GNOME, and the community at large to produce the most powerful spreadsheet in the world."

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Not a Clone by Jody+Goldberg · 2003-07-04 11:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

Our goal is to produce a great spreadsheet.

Compatibility with existing products is required for people to be able to transition. We already have significantly better analytics than MS Excel. Over time we hope to become a superset of it in other areas too.