yojay@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jason P. Hoffman) (05/08/91)
Does anyone know which issue of Infoworld compared Lotus 3.1, Excel 3.0, and Quattro Pro 3.0? I think Excel is the best with Quattro Pro a very close second. Is Borland coming out with a Windows version of Quattro Pro? If they do, Quattro Pro might just surpass Excel as the best spreadsheet package available. ===================================================================== Jason P. Hoffman | Internet: yojay@ucscb.UCSC.EDU University of California, | BITNET: yojay%b@ucscc San Francisco | UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!yojay Box 0818 | San Francisco, CA 94143 | =====================================================================
jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) (05/08/91)
yojay@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jason P. Hoffman) writes: > >Does anyone know which issue of Infoworld compared Lotus 3.1, Excel 3.0, and >Quattro Pro 3.0? I think Excel is the best with Quattro Pro a very close >second. Is Borland coming out with a Windows version of Quattro Pro? If they >do, Quattro Pro might just surpass Excel as the best spreadsheet package >available. Rumor has it that Borland is writing Windows versions for both Quatro-Pro and Paradox. Ask them and they'll just smile. As for who is best, while I use Excel only occasionally, I hear that Wingz beats the pants off of all these other speadsheets. -- Joe Wasik, Pac*Bell, 2600 Camino Ramon, Rm 4E750V, San Ramon, CA (415)823-2422 email: jcwasik@clib.PacBell.COM or [...]!pacbell!clib!jcwasik Sloganeering (slo-gan-err-ing) v. The act of believing that people can be motivated by expressing a phrase. [See "We value..."]
sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke) (05/08/91)
In article <15488@darkstar.ucsc.edu> yojay@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jason P. Hoffman) writes: > >Does anyone know which issue of Infoworld compared Lotus 3.1, Excel 3.0, and >Quattro Pro 3.0? I think Excel is the best with Quattro Pro a very close >second. Is Borland coming out with a Windows version of Quattro Pro? If they >do, Quattro Pro might just surpass Excel as the best spreadsheet package >available. > >===================================================================== >Jason P. Hoffman | Internet: yojay@ucscb.UCSC.EDU >University of California, | BITNET: yojay%b@ucscc > San Francisco | UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!yojay >Box 0818 | >San Francisco, CA 94143 | >===================================================================== If I am using any machine less than a 25Mh 386 w/4Mb RAM, I would go with Quattro Pro - any version (I use Ver.1.0, though I just ordered Ver.3). EXCEL 3.0 is a super program, very well designed and on a fast Windows 3.0 machine, I think I would prefer it (cut and pasting to a Word Processor, and Graphics are features that I need in a spreadsheet.) Lotus 3.1 is nice -but- its the only version of Lotus that surpasses Quattro Pro ver. 1 in features (IMHO) and you need a relatively high end machine to run it. I have tried Lotus 3.1 and EXCEL 3.0 and use Quattro Pro 1. I have decided to upgrade to QP 3 rather than one of the others, because thier support (once you get through the busy signals) is good, the product is good, and if you qualify for the Educational Pricing....the price cannot be beat! I have not yet seen a head to head comparison of the three products in any of the Mags,(PC Mag. PC World, PC Compute, or Info World) though there is a good review of Quattro Pro in the April 29 issue of Info World. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Stephen Guerke, Coord. Computer Resources sguerke@brahms.udel.edu University of Delaware Parallel Program stephen.guerke@mvs.udel.edu Georgetown, DE 19947 ILV20078@UDELVM.UDEL.EDU
rtodd@berlioz.nsc.com (Ron Todd) (05/09/91)
Though I am short on experiance with Excel, I can say that WingZ is one super spread sheet program. Sheet size is 32k by 32k, only limited by available memory/storage. Programming and graphics are outstatnding (wait till you see the 3d and technical graphs). The Windows paradigim is expertly carried over into the WingZ programming system. Built-in functions are 300+ in number. It includes data- base functions as well. It can import WKS, WK1, SYLK, DIF, BIFF and ASCII format work sheets and except for BIFF can save back to their origional format. WingZ is not new, it's been around the MAC environment for quite a while; infact if you compare what WingZ has to what Lotus, Excel and Quattro are adding to their environment you will find that WingZ had it all along, WingZ was introduced to the PC community only through Windows 3.0. Informix does not spend the advertizing monies that the others do so it is no suprise that it is not as well known nor as well reviewed, a real shame given its capabilities. Just a satisfied user.
ccoprdg@prism.gatech.EDU (Drew Gonczi) (05/09/91)
Well I've done a little dabbling into Quattro Pro 3.0. Of course I'm using a 25 MHz 386 (4Meg), but thats not important. I've been quite impressed by the WYS (what you see is what you get) mode (for VGA only). I despise Windows, so I'm not up on Excel for PC's. I do, however, like QPRO3.0 on the PC better than Excel on a Mac. The neatest thing about Quattro is using the Graph editor. It adds alot if not all of the features from Excel to Q. Of course you can take the graph you created and paste it into the actual body of your spreadsheet. It will also automagically scale the graph to fit into whatever block you select. If you want to get really fancy, just create a Spreadsheet/Graph in Quattro and save it. Then bring the file into Word Perfect 5.1 and add some more text and graphics. note: this opinion is biased due to my passionate dislike for MS-Windows. -- Drew Gonczi | "Blood follows blood and we make sure Georgia Institute of Technology | Life ain't for you and we're the cure" Atlanta, GA 30313 | Damage Inc. ARPA: ccoprdg@prism.gatech.edu | Metallica
tanu@beach.csulb.edu ( Tanu Kartawiria) (05/19/91)
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