Hosted wiki tool

JotSpot has updated its wiki software to better resemble traditional desktop applications and is preparing an on-premise edition of its hosted service. The two-year-old company said it will on Monday introduce JotSpot 2.0, a version of its hosted software, which is designed to make wikis easier to build. Wikis are Web pages which can be jointly authored and edited. JotSpot hosts its wiki software, aimed mainly at small- and mid-size companies, and has developed applications built on top of the wiki platform. People use the wiki software to ***

Social software company Socialtext will redistribute and co-develop WikiCalc, an online collaborative spreadsheet created by PC software pioneer Dan Bricklin. In addition, the company announced on Friday that next month it will release an open-source edition of its wiki-based collaboration software. WikiCalc is a an open-source, browser-based collaboration tool that combines spreadsheet functionality with wikis, software for joint creation of Web pages whose content can be edited by users. Its inventor, Bricklin, co-developed VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for the PC. ***

Splunk is setting up a public collaborative Web site, or wiki, for IT professionals who hunt down system glitches. The San Francisco-based start-up on Monday is expected to launch a commercial version of a hosted service called Splunk Base, which aims to be the equivalent of an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia, but for technology administrators. Splunk Base is a hosted wiki where system administrators can post information on errors they encounter while running data centers. A database administrator, for example, might report a problem that often occurs when setting up an Oracle database to run with Apache Web server. ***