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There is also Resolver One. - http://www.resolversystems.com/products/resolver-one/

I have always thought it looked awesome, but is Windows only so I haven't been able to try it.

I tried Resolver One two years ago and it took 2 minutes to launch. I tried it again right now; first launch took 70 seconds and a subsequent launch took 55 seconds. Also, the interface is quite a bit less responsive than Excel. This might help explain its relative obscurity.

Hey ivank. I work at Resolver, and just wanted to say, that's a fair comment. Getting the startup time of Resolver One down has been difficult for us. Our new web-app will fix that for some of our users, and we hope to provide a clear migration from Resolver One to projectdirigible.com for those of our users for whom it makes sense.

Best regards,

Jonathan

The same guys who created Resolver One recently embarked upon a cloud-based, Python spreadsheet application called Dirigible (http://www.projectdirigible.com/).

It looks pretty cool and improves upon Resolver One (for my purposes) by using pure Python (vs. IronPython) and an EC2 back-end to parallelize calcs. It's also obviously cross-platform.

Disclaimer: I don't work for them, just a happy customer.

I did a number of wow theorycrafting spreadsheets (Dorkiest pursuit on Earth!) and found I got more mileage out of the row/column level formulas, named cells, and imports than I did out of the Python integration, which was opposite of what I expected.

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