Spreadsheets (was Mesa vs. Appsoft)

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From: David Gursky
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:26

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I posted:

  DG> I'll throw my two cents in to this debate.  The one thing missing from
  DG> everyone's spreadsheet application is compatibility with Excel...

And Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) responded:

  CM> Excel 3.0a for the Macintosh runs under Executor 1.2 (shipping today).
  CM> Excel 4.0 for the Macintosh runs under Executor 1.2.1 (shipping
  CM> sometime next week, assuming we get the manuals back from the
  CM> printer).

Clifford's response misses my point.  I know I can use Executor to run Excel,
but  if a user can run Excel, they will not switch to Athena Design's Mesa,
Appsoft's Solution, Lotus' Improv, or Informix's Wingz.  Athena Design, Appsoft,
Lotus, and Informix all realize that backwards compatibility to competiting
products is an effective method of winning new sales, because the user will not
loose access to any of the information they have generated.  All I'm saying is
that the specific set of formats supported needs to be expanded to include Excel
(both Mac and PC versions.)

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