Notable Gnumeric features include:
Ability to import and export Excel files
100% of Excel functions
Import of CSV, WK1, xBase data formats
Scriptable using Perl and Guile
Printing via gnome-print, thus providing support for things like Type 1 anti-aliased fonts, which allows high quality display.
Ongoing efforts to make Gnumeric embeddable with GNOME applications using the Bonobo compound document system
Various analysis tools including statistical functions and a "goal seek" tool
Table Editor And Planner, Or: Teapot!
Portable to any reasonably Unix-like OS; written in C. Uses a somewhat functional model. It can read Lotus 123 WKS files.
An X-based spreadsheet written in C and Scheme.
The package includes a word processing application called Pathetic Writer.
The spreadsheet package is somewhat "interface independent;" it has both Xlib and Gtk versions; it is also reported to have an interface based on the CURSES library that can thus run on any sort of "dumb terminal."
The various modules are gradually attaining increasing interoperability with such data formats as:
HTML
RTF (Rich Text Format)
WKS (Lotus 123's data format)
As the packages are extendible using Scheme, there is almost nothing that they cannot, at least in concept, do.
For those wishing to be on the bleeding edge, the latest and
most unstable sources for Siag are now
available through anonymous CVS. Set
CVSROOT to
:pserver:anoncvs@siag.edu.stockholm.se:/home/cvs ,
then execute: cvs login, and cvs checkout
siag.
Development has not been real active lately; it appears that some developers have migrated to working on Gnumeric.
Recent claims to fame include:
A port of the "classic" Unix spreadsheet program SC to X. Sources in C are freely available.
A Lotus 123 compatible character based spreadsheet. Once sold commercially, the binaries for Linux are freely redistributable.
Dismal - Spreadsheet for Emacs
This is a character mode spreadsheet package written in Emacs LISP that runs inside the Emacs editor. See also the Dismal Web Page
SES - Simple Emacs Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet that runs atop GNU Emacs.
Xxl is a free graphical spreadsheet developed at the University of Nice for Unix platforms. It is designed to be simple, easy to use and user friendly. Xxl is written in STk and is based on the tkTable widget.
ABS - a GPLed Unix/X11 Spreadsheet
Abs is a free spreadsheet with a graphical user interface.
Main functionality:
Moodss (Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) is implemented in the Tcl language (requires at least versions 8.0 of Tcl and Tk).
Moodss is a modular application. It displays data described and updated in an independent module loaded when the application is started. Data is originally displayed in a table. Graphical views (graph, bar or pie charts) can be created from any number of table cells through a simple drag'n'drop operation. The table rows can be sorted in increasing or decreasing order by selecting any column.
This is a spreadsheet implemented in C/C++, which is extendable using TCL.
This is an ss derivative with rewritten menus and (incomplete) html on-line help added.
This is a chapter from a book on Ada that describes a spreadsheet implementation.
A spreadsheet package implemented in Objective C available under a BSD style license, presently running only on MacOS, inspired by Quantrix.
This hasn't been changed much since 2004, when the source code was released; it does, nonetheless, work, on MacOS, and gives a good idea as to how Improv worked, combining the notions of building spreadsheets as multidimensional tables, and formulae that control ranges of cells
Efforts are ongoing to release StarOffice as Free Software through the project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular productivity suite. This includes a component system called UNO. OpenOffice.org uses XML as a reasonably "open" storage system as documented at xml.openoffice.org
This is an IBM-released "office productivity" package, created using a combination of Eclipse , Java , and portions of the OpenOffice.org code base.
A Finnish company is "packaging" the code of OpenOffice.org , apparently with a business model of selling additional services.