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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For product information, contact:
Robin Shields
415/570-7736, ext.10
robin@lighthouse.com
For press information, contact:
Angela Grady
415/570-7736, ext. 30
angela@lighthouse.com
Lighthouse Design Ships Quantrix 1.0 for NEXTSTEP
Powerful multi-dimensional spreadsheet includes API for custom
application developers, and is compatible with Lotus Improv
DECEMBER 15, 1994 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today
announced that it has shipped Quantrix 1.0, a multi-dimensional
spreadsheet application, to the object-oriented NEXTSTEP, operating
environment.
"Quantrix is an extraordinary addition to Lighthouse's product
family," said Jonathan Schwartz, president of Lighthouse Design,
Ltd. "The application presents an industrial strength framework for
the development of custom analytical applications, and a uniquely
approachable interface to spreadsheet analysis. Quantrix has already
been successfully deployed in several large-scale enterprises across
the globe."
"Lighthouse developed Quantrix in under one year, demonstrating
the advantage our object environment provides to application
developers," said Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer,
Inc. "This is just the kind of competitive edge forward thinking
corporate and shrink-wrapped developers can expect from the software
industry's only shipping object environment."
Quantrix allows users to describe and manipulate data in terms of
categories, rather than rows and columns. This approach allows
users to write plain English formulas such as "Gross Revenue =
Product Revenue + Service Revenue," rather than "$a27=b17+$c$31."
Coupled with data tabs for fast navigation, unlimited undo and
redo, multiple views and smart cells, Quantrix makes complex
financial models and reports easy to create and share with others.
Quantrix is compatible with Lotus Improv for NeXT and Windows, as
well as ParaSheet, Lighthouse Design's traditional rows and columns
spreadsheet.
Quantrix includes a fully object-oriented application programmer's
interface (API) that supports NEXTSTEP distributed objects (DO),
and provides complete programmatic access to all aspects of the
application. The Quantrix spreadsheet framework is optimized for
large data sets and substantially reduces the development effort
required to build and deploy custom financial applications.
Quantrix is a key addition to Lighthouse Design's growing line of
products, which now includes Diagram!, a drawing program for
information graphics; Concurrence, a presentation and outlining
package; ParaSheet, a traditional rows and columns spreadsheet;
WriteUp, a general-purpose word processor; VarioData, a multi-user
workgroup database; TaskMaster, a project and resource management
application; WetPaint, a painting and image manipulation program;
and the Foundation Classes, a library of reusable objects for custom
developers. Lighthouse is also an authorized reseller of Frame
Technology Corporation's FrameMaker, 3.2 on NEXTSTEP for Intel,
the industry's premier document publishing package.
Quantrix is available now for the Intel-, Motorola- and HP PA-RISC-based
versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. Quantrix is priced at $895. Site
licenses are available as well as academic discounts.
Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering unsurpassed productivity
to enterprise developers and end-users of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep.
The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403.
For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products,
contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or
1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to info@lighthouse.com, or
see Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at http://www.lighthouse.com/.
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Lighthouse Design, Ltd., Quantrix, Diagram!, Concurrence, ParaSheet,
VarioData, TaskMaster, WetPaint, the Foundation Classes and the
Lighthouse logo are trademarks of Lighthouse Design, Ltd. NeXT and
NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. Improv
is a trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. Windows is a
trademark of Microsoft Corporation. FrameMaker is a registered
trademark of Frame Technology Corporation. All other trademarks
mentioned are the property of their respective owners.