CompuServe Messages

Just to put my two cents in. I _have_ an Amiga 2500/30 at work, with a Bridgeboard, hooked into a Novell net through the bridge. Our company word processing standard? WP 5.1. Our company spreadsheet standard? Lotus 2.2 and 3.1. Our company database standard? Paradox on the PeeCees, with Oracle running on a Unix box on the net. We're currently working on bringing up the new version of Paradox to work as a "front end" for Oracle. Point: The reason I could get the Amiga in here was that I could show that I could run on the Novell net just like a PC AT, AND that I could port 123 and WP files back and forth. So, now I do ALL of our company's newsletters (using ProPage). I do desk top demos (using a bunch of different products on the Amy side.) And, when we need graphs etc. to look really nice, I take the spreadsheet info into The_Advantage, dump out ProDraw versions of the graphs, and then spice them up in ProDraw and ProPage (we have a color postscript printer in house). This is the case, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE PLENTY OF TOP LINE MSDOS DTP AND GRAPH PROGRAMS. Yes — interchangeability with with MSDOS "standard" formats is _extremely_ important if you want to get this platform, and its software, into a business setting. (I also do quite a bit of work importing images scanned on an HP Scanjet in TIFF format [256 gray], HIJAAKed into 8 bit IFF, and then processed with TAD and output from ProPage.)