Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Jan 2006 14:40 UTC
Corel bills its WordPerfect Office software as 'the world's leading alternative to Microsoft Office'. But when it comes to US retail sales, Corel lost the no. 2 spot in 2005 to a somewhat unlikely competitor: Apple Computer's iWork. According to market researcher NPD, Apple grabbed a 2.7 percent unit share, while Corel had a 1.6 percent share. Microsoft maintained its dominance with nearly 95 percent of unit sales.
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RE: i work 06 has spreadsheet like tables
by Lu-Tze on Tue 24th Jan 2006 20:22
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Member since:2006-01-10
These are not equivalent to a spreadsheet. MS Word also has these since god knows when. So at best you could say Pages is catching up, NOT "breaking traditions". They do not supplant Excel unless your spreadsheet requirements are rather rudimentary. This is like saying Pivot tables in Excel replace Access.
RE[2]: i work 06 has spreadsheet like tables
by grrr on Tue 24th Jan 2006 21:14
in reply to "RE: i work 06 has spreadsheet like tables"
Member since:2005-09-03
You are right of course. I just did not know what you can do with word. On the other hand I think that pages with its gui with inspectors is more inspired by object orientation and is a bit different than the gui of word os open office or abi or ..... I can be wrong again not knowing word or pages that well." This is like saying Pivot tables in Excel replace Access."
sometimes they do ;-).
Edited 2006-01-24 21:30
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2005-09-03
see
http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/features/tables.html
maybe thinking in terms of spreadsheet database word-processor is more tradition then necessity. Maybe Pages will break with that traditions