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From: cbradley@Busl.COM (Chris Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: WingZ
Summary: it's not forever...
Keywords: lotus ashton-tate informix wingz improv powerstep
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Date: 28 Nov 90 16:37:48 GMT
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In article <699@mara.cognet.ucla.edu> iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) writes:
>Although I am happy to also receive Improv, I am a bit  sorry for Informix and
>Ashton Tate. After all, how can they compete with a free product? 

Fortunately for Informix and for Ashton-Tate, the Improv-for-free promotion
is for a limited time only.  (I bet the Improv product managers are happy
about that, too!  :-)  The promotion is supposed to end on 12/31/90.

Having used the Improv code since "BackBay release 81", I believe 
that Improv offers a significant and important advance in modeling tools
for a certain segment of the planning public.  I don't believe that it
is the right tool for >everyone< who uses row-and-column spreadsheets
today, but I think that a substantial number of planners will find it to 
be their first choice of modeling tools.

Everyone who uses a spreadsheet today should see this, if only to
understand what Improv offers.  Not everyone will fall in love with it,
but some will -- I did!

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