brosgol@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU (10/12/88)
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....