CompuServe Messages

James, I think that the changing marketing strategy may have something to do with the everchanging leadership in CBM USA. Currently they've got two targets: multimedia and home-computer/toy. They will also have to be competing in the Unix and home-electronics/CDTV markets soon as well, which is enough to make marketdroids lose their mind! If you'd seen Lotus Improv you might not feel that porting is so bad. One example of how Lotus is so well organized. Columns and rows are not numbered, they are named. You can also group columns and rows such as: Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3…… product 1 prod 2 prod 1 prod 2 prod 1 prod 2 There will be two little buttons along the top labeled quarter and product. If you drag the product button down to the vertical axis, it will automatically restructure the entire spreadsheet to show quarter1, 2, 3 across the top and product 1 and product 2 along the y axis. It is VERY intuitive. Also, the formulas are kept in a 'window' and are phrased as words. You can be sure this'll be ported to many other platforms. BTW, Commodore had an excellent quarter 7/1-9/30. Sales of Amigas were up by 50 PERCENT in terms of unit sales. The A3000 must've taken off. Earnings were 7 million. — Ethan