The Views Table style plugin works very well for most cases. However, it is restrictive when it comes to choosing how (for example) multiple nodes are to be tabulated as it demands that fields always be rendered as columns. This issue is routinely solved through the use of some PHP magickery in the table plugin's template file where row and column values are simply flipped. The FTable (Flipped Table) module attached to this post performs something similar albeit by declaring a separate FTable style plugin which reuses and extends the existing table plugin as much as possible.
While the plugin works well at the moment, please consider it to be beta code.
Update: While there is no D7 update available, the Views Hacks module appears to provide a similar alternative.