RE: In praise of Ada Freeware

["Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Preben Randhol et al.
Unfortunately, Sun has one gross deficiency, at least concerning their
spreadsheet; they do not understand that software engineering needs to be
applied to a spreadsheet. The only one that was worth anything was Lotus'
Improve. Columns and rows must have unique, human understandable names. This
permits formulas to be understood by mere mortals, the customers. At least,
Microsoft has started to port its products to XML.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]On Behalf Of Preben Randhol
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:35 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware


In article <9me5be$q2k$1@news.btv.ibm.com>, Dale Pontius wrote:

> Better yet, it may also devalue a competitor's product line by making
> free competition for their for-sale product, (This is more likely if
> you're a niche player and they are more diversified.) leaving you
> slightly stronger in the areas where you are head-to-head.

Which in my opinion is the strategy Sun is going after with Open Office.
I mean to break the M$ Office monopoly.

Preben Randhol
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with Ada, Programming_Is_Safer;
use Ada;