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June 02, 2003

Spread....sheet!

Here's one of those "wow" moments. Excel and Groove.

Ashok has been working towards this for a long while - building custom data-oriented tools in Groove, edging towards more generic data structures, then a tool presenting a spreadsheet-like grid, then a subset of a real spreadsheet... and, finally, the real thing. Excel, groovy.

This means you can share any spreadsheet, securely and immediately, with others in a space. Changes made by any one user are directly applied to all the others. Such immediacy! Such flexibility!

Nice work. And I have no idea how it's done. Must be magic.