Google Spreadsheets::Rejoice Linux users

This post is taken from on my Linux blog: http://linux-business.blogspot.com

Great news!! Google does magic again, and this time directly on the head of the gaint called Microsoft. The search engine dude is out with its web-based spreadsheet. The application is up for testing here. Google Spreadsheets is surely going to be a direct hit to MS Excel.

Although the program is not as sophisticated as MS Excel, but the idea is great and ingenuine which is bold enough to sent Micrsoft trembling. But the best part of it is that it is a web-based application and it goes along with you wherever there is Internet and you have access to it. Not only this, it is possible to collaborate work on realtime basis with guys editing it realtime over the Internet.

Sounds great, isn't it? Now let us discuss the drawbacks. Anything web demands bandwidth and realtime means huge bandwidth. Hence the application can be expected to be a bit slower than MS "Desktop" Excel. So clearly, you might not get much out of it without broadband.

Also, while Google Spreadsheets can import Excel and CSV files, you would most probably have issues when you’re already dealing with very large spreadsheets, as may be the case when you already have several hundred rows or columns of figures. But then again, you probably won’t have to handle such large sets of data online unless you really have to.

Whatsoever, when google does anything, it does give shivers to guys like Microsoft and joy to guys who wants the best things in the world for free. So Linux guys can rejoice for now that google is up with something which is absolutely free.

For now, the Google Spreadsheets is under "Lab" testing on limited basis. So if you want to be one to get a "taste" of the test, just visit the site and leave your email. Feel free to do that..click here to go directly to Google Spreadsheets.