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From: chris@SALT.ACC.COM (Chris VandenBerg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet for Sun w/ X support.
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Date: 11 Sep 90 15:51:24 GMT
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>In article <67778@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, jac@sundance.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) writes:
>>
>>  I would be very interested in a summary of your responses. I
>>was quite excited after reading a review of WingZ the other day,
>>until I read it was a SunView product. What I don't understand
>>is why they went to the trouble to write a SunView product with
>>the OPEN LOOK UI (and it must have been trouble, since Sun doesn't
>>supply tools to do this, as far as I know). Sheesh!

>I called Informix last winter and they said they were working on a
>Motif version of WingZ and expected it to be shipping Q4 of this year.
>This is confirmed somewhat by the inclusion of WingZ in NCD's eXport
>Catalog which lists WingZ for the DECstation 2100/3100 at $599.

	I have used the WINGZ package to create and display reports
using data that we collect through our network management station and
I think it is fantastic! No, Informix, doesn't pay me to say such things
but when someone like me can sit down and learn a product in a day and
create a custom report with interactive buttons to graph data in a 
dozen ways I'M IMPRESSED. I would suggest you give it a "testflight"...
		Chris VandenBerg
		ACC(chris@salt.acc.com)
		805-963-9431