I've always been a bit perplexed that there isn't a spreadsheet as good as 123 (ie, 1980s technology) as a standard part of Linux distributions. There is a massive blind spot in the open source world around spreadsheets. As far as I can tell it's down to the geeks writing open source tools not being interested in solving business problems and focusing on tools for working with code and manipulating data in text format, not cells. Which is understandable, you write tools for free for your own needs and you get paid to write tools for others. So businesses pay Microsoft for Excel.
I meant like a 123 (or even Visicalc) clone that would run in a terminal. It seems like such a basic thing that has existed on PCs for so long (in fact even predates the IBM PC) so why did it have to wait for Staroffice/Sun to make a GUI version? And there still is no decent text mode spreadsheet that can run over SSH. Even a 1:1 123 clone would be perfectly functional.
