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From: lhotka@incstar.uucp (Glamdring)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: When will new WordPerfect be available?
Message-ID: <2303@incstar.uucp>
Date: 16 Jan 91 08:22:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan14.092400.10827@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jan14.104559.23914@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Jan14.224413.22111@infonode.ingr.com>
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In article <1991Jan14.224413.22111@infonode.ingr.com>, palmerc@infonode.ingr.com (Chris Palmer) writes:
> In article <91014.113702AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu> AXN100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>
>>Have any of you who are flaming MB tried
>>Word or 123?  Word for the MAC is one of the best, if not the best,
>>wordprocessors around. 
>>As for Spreadsheets, 123 is the best.  Why because it is the
>>standard (please no flames :) ).  Go into any major company and see which
>>spredsheet they use, 9 times out of 10 it will be 123. 
> 
> [stuff about Word removed...]
>
> I have to disagree, however, about Lotus 1-2-3.  I do not believe that 
> being an industry standard says very much about the quality of your product
> (look at IBM, :-) ).  It would look good to potential business customers to
> have 1-2-3 available for the Amiga, but I don't know how many hardcore
> Amiga people would use it.  I've used 1-2-3 many times, and every time I
> use it I am amazed at how much I don't like it.  Analyze!, or even several
> PD programs like AnalytiCalc, are as powerful and more easy to use and even
> 1-2-3 compatible to some extent.  I hate to give so much good press to 
> MicroSoft considering their prejudice against non-IBM/Mac stuff, but
> MicroSoft Excel on the Mac is an excellent spreadsheet.
> 

I would say that you are right about 1-2-3, it would be a great shot
in the arm from a business viewpoint, but...

Personally I want to see Excel written for the Amiga.  We use Excel (under
Windows 3.0) at work every day.  While I have not seen all the Amiga
spreadsheets, I *have* seen the ones listed above and IMHO none of them
come anywhere near the power of Excel :-(

The ability of Excel to create powerful macros with custom requestors,
to create tables and other documents using shading, multiple fonts, etc
and Excel's graphing abilities (which are truely awesome) make it
something to be desired!

I feel that you are incorrect in assuming that Amiga users would not want
the power of 1-2-3 or Excel on their machine.  I have many times considered
getting a bridgeboard just to run Excel - Maxiplan (my current Amiga
spreadsheet) just doesn't compare...
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