Raymon was randomly selected from all of the entrants and he will be getting his copy of the book shortly. Thanks for all who entered.
As for spreadsheet names:
Bestspread – sounds like a margarine products
Buckwheat – O Tay
CalcEase – laxative?
Calcium
CalcXPress
Cell U Like
CellBoard
Cirrus – in honor of cloud computing – clever
Count
Crunch
DataHusker – my personal favorite
DataMiner
Dataplane
EasySheet
Ellexx
Enumerate
FigureItOut
Formula
FormulaGrid
Formulator
GNEWTON (Gnewton’s Not Excel, We’re Totally Optimized, Numerate) – a stretch of an acronym
Go Figure – this sounds like a unix open source knockoff
Griddle
Gridlock – easy to say, tough to market
iCalc – the obligatory i entries
iCell
Klockwerk – I like this one. Maybe Cellwerks or Gridwerks
Koala
Lists
Numb
Number Buddy
nUmbers
Numbers
NumCruncher
objectCalc
PowerCalc
Qbit
SpreadCells
SpreadSheet – I wouldn’t want to pay for this domain name
TellGrid
The Matrix – two separate people suggested this one
UltraCalc
WonderCalc
WOW
XpressSheet
?????? (Excel in arabic, I’m told)
Well, what do you think?
“Crunch”, I think. Then we just need to add a definition for the verb and we can “Crunch the numbers”, in the same way we “google” for things. It would probably have to be open source though, because of the likely problems with trademarking.
And if you got really good at Crunch you could be Captain Crunch.
Crunchoholic sounds much better then Exceloholic
My first thought was “CellMate” :-)
/Roy
I was amused by Number Buddy (“a contender for the name of the program that would
ultimately be called Microsoft Excel”) because it sounds like a kid’s game, and because it’s similar to (but not as punny as) the name of my part-time consulting business, yoursumbuddy.
Doug, Number Buddy would fit well with the Fisher Price look of Win XP