Has anyone started a "Save AppleWorks" movement?

Having toodled with iWork a little bit, I am sad to say that while it does have some nice features, it dos not measure up to the usefullness of good old AppleWorks. What is missing is obviously the spreadsheet and database capabilities.
Has anybody started a "Save AppleWorks" movement, and if so how can I help. I am more interested in the spreadsheet part, but have occasionally have use for a database as well.

Martin Gallo...
It seems that AppleWorks is doomed as we know it. Or as Yvan put it "A "Save AppleWorks" movement will certainly fail."
Perhaps being bundled for free in most Mac sales it didn't generate income needed for further development. Micro$oft Office seemed to be a catch all for the rest of the "power" users without giving AppleWorks even a remote chance. Expecially concerning cross-platform Windows users.
I am still looking for that killer app that can replace AppleWorks (inexpensively) but to date, no such luck.
http://www.flysuite.com/en/index.php?ww=us (is about the closest I have came up with)
...Ron

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