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- From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 version of Lotus Improv?
- Message-ID: <pathak-191192095214@virtual.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Nov11.234013.23421@lsa.umich.edu> <1992Nov14.163041.24710@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:54:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.163041.24710@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov11.234013.23421@lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
- > >I have just read an announcement about Lotus porting Improv (their
- > >lovely spreadsheet program on the NeXT machines) to Windows. Does anyone
- > >here know their intentions on producing a PM version?
- >
- > I'm a bit puzzled by Lotus's actions here. Improv would work
- > wonderfully under OS/2 2.0, and I hope they do port it to OS/2 first.
- > The Windows port is going to require an awful lot of tedious work.
- >
-
- It really isn't that puzzling. The spreadsheet market for OS/2 has no
- dominant product so the regular 1-2-3 is good enough. However, Excel owns
- the Windows spreadsheet market. So far, Lotus has been able to get only
- 28% for the market. Since Improv had gotten rave reviews, it makes sense
- for Lotus to put out a Windows version to steal marketshare from MS.
-
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