Jun05

Google Spreadsheet

The Wall Street Journal reports Google will release a web-based spreadsheet application tomorrow on a limited test basis. Combined with Writely and Google Base it gives Google a mini office suite in what might be compared to Microsoft's Word, Excel, and Access offerings.

Is there room for an online PowerPoint (Google Pages + S5 perhaps) to complete the suite?

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  1. Jackson West on June 5, 2006 at 3:12 PM wrote: #

    Is it just me, or do you think other folks my be a bit leary of using a web-based app for anything besides maybe the household budget? Because if I was a company with any kind of sensitive records, I would not necessarily want Google to have them cached on their servers. Not that Google would necessarily exploit them (though if they did, how would anyone know?) but I wouldn't want, say, my annual budget subpoenaed by the IRS for instance.
  2. ? Niall Kennedy on June 5, 2006 at 3:24 PM wrote: #

    I know startup executives who forward all their e-mail to Gmail, even as they discuss deals and competitive services to Google offerings. Few people worry about it methinks.
  3. RBA on June 5, 2006 at 4:34 PM wrote: #

    Emphasis in the word "mini"... iRows is taking forever to load. Wonder why :-)
  4. Author Profile Page Simon Cox on June 15, 2006 at 3:40 AM wrote: #

    I have to agree with Jackson - I think that large corporates will get very worried about this and block it off - same with Google Notebook. I have been playing with the spreadsheet and it is great - but would I put company sensitive data on it? Not a chance! My own rubbish will happily reside on Google Spreadsheets and be available to me wherever I go.

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