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NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the breaking-the-XLS-tyranny dept.

martin-k writes "NewsForge has a glowing review about PlanMaker for Linux, a new spreadsheet for Linux that is much more compatible with Microsoft Excel than the competition and speedier, too. PlanMaker has Excel-compatible charting and AutoShapes and reads and writes any Excel file you throw at it. Here is a chart comparing Excel, OpenOffice.org, and PlanMaker." Yes, Virginia, NewsForge is also part of OSDN, like Slashdot.

2 of 312 comments (clear)

  1. It's not free. by motyl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    EOM.

  2. Re:Interesting.... by SphericalCrusher · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, but it's not like PlanMaker beats it overall. It's only an Excel-spreadsheet clone... it doesn't do pure word processing

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