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LibreOffice. It's old-school local app though, not cloud.

There are several other Free Software tools that will provide spreadsheet compatibility, Gnumeric being among my favorite. Also the KDE office suite, KOffice.

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They are working on a Web version called LibreOffice Online. I don't know the current state. But last year they already showed a quick demo.

Thanks.

I'd like to have a longer discussion on the topic with you. Check my user info and shoot me an email :)

I'd like LibreOffice if it wasn't so clunky. It's entirely lacking polish and quality control. It has potential, but it's not there yet.

I'll admit I pretty much only use it when I must for comparability. Otherwise my preference is plain text (vim) over word processors, awk for Excel, with lighter utilities (abiword, numeric, koffice) or specialized tool (lyx) standing in for more specific tasks.

To be honest, I too used the same toolset as you for a long time, but since Office 2007, it's just not been worth it for me. I have to share a lot of documents and information with people who don't understand the UNIX tools so it's not practical.

I'd like to have a longer discussion on the topic with you. Check my user info and shoot me an email :)

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