Micropersuasion: Jotspot Tracker puts Excel on the Web
The pieces are starting to come together for a web replacement for Excel.
Steve Rubel writes in Micro Persuasion about JotSpot Tracker:
JotSpot just hatched a new service called JotSpot Tracker that puts Excel spreadsheets on the Web for sharing with just a copy and a paste. Combine this baby with JotLive or Writely and not only are you this close from being liberated from Microsoft Office, but you gain very powerful collaboration features as well.
In addition, Confluence 2.0 allows you to paste in Excel tables and edit them using the WYSIWYG editor. Unlike JotSpot Tracker, Confluence does not yet support table sorting, but it’s not hard to imagine them adding these features.
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Hi there,
I’m looking to install a company wide Wiki. It looks like you got a lot of experience with this sort of stuff. Do you have any recomendations? $8k-$15k seems to be a bit pricy for jot.
Thanks!
-Matt
By Matt on 12.08.05 7:02 pm
Hi Matt,
JotSpot hosted offering are quite inexpensive. Are you limiting your search to server appliances?
-Eugene
By Eugene Levitsky on 12.09.05 1:03 pm
Hi Matt,
There are much less expensive Jot subscription options that still offer a lot of bang for the buck:
http://www.jot.com/pricelist/pricelist_full.php
–Eugene
By Eugene on 12.09.05 1:13 pm
As Eugene notes, there are less expensive Jot options; I hear good things about Jot.
Confluence is also quite affordable. A team edition for 25 users is only $1200, and (at one time at least) it was possible to split up this payment in two. The workgroup edition for 50 users is $2200.
By philbo on 12.09.05 1:38 pm
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