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- From: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak)
- Subject: Athena Design Announces Mesa Educational Pricing
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.162759.9627@dpp>
- Sender: dpp@dpp
- Reply-To: dpp@athena.com (David Pollak)
- Organization: Athena Design, Inc.
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:27:59 GMT
- Lines: 75
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- For Immediate Release Press Contact: Tracy Kugelman
- August 12, 1992 Phone: (617) 783-9838
- Company Contact: David Pollak
- Phone: (617) 734-6372
-
- ATHENA DESIGN ANNOUNCES THE EDUCATIONAL VERSION OF MESA
- THE NeXT(tm) PLATEAU IN SPREADSHEETS
-
- Boston - Today, Athena Design, Inc. announced an educational
- edition of its Mesa spreadsheet. This edition will have a
- suggested list price of $xx. The educational edition contains
- the complete Mesa product include the Mesa Object Library
- Interface (MOLI). It also includes the user's guide on disk
- but does not include telephone technical support. It will
- be available September 4th.
-
- David Pollak, President and founder of Athena Design, stated,
- "We figured that we'd give the folks in education a break.
- They can use the free demo copy available on the archives
- or pay a xxx bucks to get a fully enabled version."
-
- Mesa includes the Mesa Object Library Interface (MOLI)
- which allows custom programmers to manipulate data in Mesa
- worksheets, feed data to worksheets in real time, print
- reports, and include worksheet views and graphs in custom
- applications. Paul Murphy, a custom application developer
- with Marble Associates, said, "MOLI makes it very easy for
- our custom applications to interact and exchange data with
- Mesa worksheets."
-
- Mesa's most innovative feature is function inheritance.
- "Spreadsheets allow users to change data and see the
- changes reflected in cells that refer to that data,"
- says Pollak. "We simply extended that paradigm to changes
- in formulas as well." This enhancement allows users to
- create spreadsheet models with fewer bugs and in less time.
- It also simplifies modification and maintenance of
- spreadsheet models.
-
- Mesa provides users with the ability to build large
- spreadsheet models. Mesa worksheets can be over 100
- times larger than 1-2-3(r) worksheets. Mesa takes
- advantage of many advanced techniques to speed up
- recalculation of large models. Bruce Henderson, NeXT
- development team leader at Pages Software and co-author
- of Appsoft Solution, an un-released spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP,
- stated, "Mesa is one of the fastest recalculating
- spreadsheets I have ever used." In benchmark tests used by
- NeXTWORLD Magazine, Mesa performed over 30 times faster than
- Improv(r), the Lotus(r) spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP.
-
- The educational version of Mesa will be commercially available
- from NeXTConnection and authorized NeXT re-sellers. It has a
- suggested retail price of $xx.
-
- Founded in 1989 by David Pollak, Athena Design develops and
- markets NeXTSTEP applications. In 1991, Athena Design released
- CultureShock, a favorite game of NeXT users all over the world.
- Since November 1991, the Boston-based software company has been
- developing Mesa, a traditional paradigm spreadsheet for NeXTSTEP.
-
- Athena Design, Inc.
- 17 Saint Mary's Court
- Boston, MA 02146
- questions@athena.com
- -----------------------------------------
- NeXT and NeXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc.
- Lotus, Improv, and 1-2-3 are registered trademarks of the
- Lotus Development Corporation.
-
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- David Pollak - dpp@athena.com - NeXTMail Compliant
- Attorney at Law,
- Feeder of the Bears, Athena Design, Inc.
-