Today we are launching Amazon Honeycode in beta form. In many cases, those custom-built apps would be a better solution than a spreadsheet, but a lack of developers or other IT resources means that these apps rarely get built. Integration & automation are also challenging, and require specialized skills. Sharing data across multiple users and multiple spreadsheets is difficult, as is dealing with large amounts of data. Today’s spreadsheets fill an important gap between mass-produced packaged applications and custom-built code created by teams of dedicated developers. I was working in a retail computer store at that time, and knew that this product was a big deal when customers started asking to purchase the software, and for whatever hardware that was needed to run it. ![]() The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II.
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