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Wikicalc goes V1.0; Future efforts at SocialCalc

By Vivek Puri

The open source Wiki-Spreadsheet WikiCalc being developed by Daniel Bricklin for the past one and a half years has finally reached 1.0 stage. This is a great news for collaboration community looking for open source solutions as compared to Google Spreadsheets or EditGrid.

If you are you looking to test drive WikiCalc on your personal machine, you will have to webserver and database combo like XAMPP on your PC and than drop WikiCalc in the htdocs folder to install the application(at least this is how it worked when i tried the install few months back).

According to Dan’s blog, future development efforts will take contributions from outside developers and SocialText, and the project will be branded as SocialCalc.

Personally i have yet to define the exact use case for WikiCalc. Would give it a in-depth run in the next few days to determine where it fits in.

Links:
WikiCalc


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4 Responses to “Wikicalc goes V1.0; Future efforts at SocialCalc”

  1. Dan Bricklin Says:
    January 26, 2007 at 10:07 pm | Reply

    To try out wikiCalc on your own computer you don’t need a server or a database. On a Windows machine it’s a simple install. On a Mac OS X or Linux machine it’s a TAR file (or zip) that you just put in a directory and run with Perl — not need to have a server or a database. You can install it on a server (one that can do Perl CGI) easily, too, and it doesn’t need a database there. See the “If you are new to wikiCalc…” page on with wikiCalc web site linked too above for more information about these difference options. You can also watch the 15 minute screencast. I tried to make it as easy as possible to get things up and running so people can try it out as simply as possible.

  2. Vivek Puri Says:
    January 26, 2007 at 10:44 pm | Reply

    Dan,

    Thanks for pointing it out. Now i remember WikiCalc coming up under the Programs list the last time i tried.

  3. Steve Kohler Says:
    January 31, 2007 at 10:57 am | Reply

    You may want to take a look at the test drives on http://www.iwoorx.com. They are some basic examples
    of wikiCalc running in a hosted environment.

    Steve Kohler – iWoorx

  4. Steve Kohler Says:
    January 31, 2007 at 10:58 am | Reply

    You may want to take a look at the test drives on http://www.iwoorx.com. They are some basic examples
    of wikiCalc running in a hosted environment.

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