Greytrout Software, Inc.

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GreyTrout Software is a North Carolina-based company founded in 1999 for the purpose of bringing high-quality data-manipulation tools to the UNIX community. SpreadScript and NExS are our current products. SpreadScript provides Perl, Python, and Tcl with a spreadsheet calculation engine that reads and writes Microsoft Excel files. NExS is a X Window spreadsheet with client-server and Internet-connectivity features. The concepts behind SpreadScript and NExS were formed at North Carolina State University during an effort to develop and deploy a scalable distributed computing environment based on X Windows and UNIX. There was very little user-oriented X Windows software available at the time, and a GUI-based spreadsheet was seen as a necessity. A key feature of the spreadsheet was its ability to communicate with other applications using the client communications built into X. This let the spreadsheet serve as a hub and user-interface for a distributed community of data producers and consumers. The NExS spreadsheet retains the design concepts originated in the NCSU spreadsheet while replacing the source code with a robust, streamlined spreadsheet engine, Motif-based GUI, and an application programming interface that supports the construction of sophisticated distributed applications. GreyTrout Software offers versions of NExS for Linux and Solaris at very reasonable prices. Our Internet-oriented sales, distribution, and technical support policies reduce our overhead and let us...

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