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Posted by michael on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:21AM from the gnumeric-also-a-possible-choice dept.

Martin Kotulla writes "SoftMaker, a German software developer, has released the first public beta of PlanMaker 2004, a native-Linux spreadsheet that is highly Excel-compatible ... in fact, this app is basically Microsoft Excel ported to Linux, including Excel-compatible charting and even AutoShapes. Here is a chart comparing Excel, OpenOffice.org, and PlanMaker." Update: 05/07 19:07 GMT by M : Softmaker.de is temporarily down; the site can still be reached at softmaker.com.

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hai2u (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:23AM (#9084699)

Does it have a clippy too?

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It's not like the real excel unless (Score:2, Funny)

by caston ( 711568 ) writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:25AM (#9084718)

It includes the flight sim as well! They better now have left out the flight simulator!

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Of all the Apps to port (Score:5, Funny)

by VanWEric ( 700062 ) writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:28AM (#9084770)

They choose Excel? I have never been able to figure that program out. Give me Minitab anyday. Mmmmm..... Multiple Regression. Excuse me. Me and fantasy minitab for linux have to be alone right now.

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Re:The wrong path (Score:3, Funny)

by Major_Small ( 720272 ) writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:28AM (#9084772) Journal

that doesn't always work. if you're running a *nix box and you want to be included with the rest of the world using windows machines, you're going to have to be compatible to even have any chance at competition...
what *nix needs is not to be different, but to be the same and different at the same time, like it is... the reason i use *nix is because I can deal the files windows users give me and I can use other *nix-only programs at the same time...

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Excel clone? Needs a cool name. (Score:4, Funny)

by L. VeGas ( 580015 ) writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @11:28AM (#9084777) Homepage Journal

I've got just the name. XXXcell

That way it will get distributed on the P2P networks a lot faster.

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Re:The wrong path (Score:2, Funny)

by yerfatma ( 666741 ) writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @12:56PM (#9085958) Homepage

Not if you have a second account with mod points.

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Re:Eastereggs (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday May 07, 2004 @12:59PM (#9085993)

I found one totally by accident. I don't have space in this comment to explain how to recreate it but it involves thousands of keystrokes and mouseclicks and takes hours to do. But if you do go through all that trouble, you will be rewarded with a colorful blue screen with wonderful white lettering that says IRQ_LESSTHAN_OR_EQ or something like that. I highly recommend it!

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