Lotus 1-2-3 delay

[brosgol@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU]

In the Boston Globe from October 11, there was an article
entitled "Lotus defends delay of new 1-2-3 version."
The following is an excerpt from that article:
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      W. Frank King, senior vice president of Lotus' software
   products group, talked about the technical challenge of
   rewriting 1-2-3 so that it works on five different
   software operating systems while still maintaining full
   compatibility with existing 1-2-3 spreadsheets.
      He described the challenge as "an order of magnitude
   over previous development efforts," but said the code
   writing phase "is really behind us" and "the work in front
   of us is understandable and predictable."  What remains to
   be done, King said, is debugging and performance enhance-
   ments.
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It must be reassuring (at least to Borland and Microsoft, if not 
to Lotus stockholders) to know that the only thing Lotus has to do
is the part of the job that takes the majority of the development
effort.  Now if they had only been using Ada....