PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Ships ParaSheet 1.0 for NEXTSTEP
Wiley Hodges
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For product information, contact:
Robin Shields
415/570-7736, ext.10
ro...@lighthouse.com
For press information, contact:
Angela Grady
415/570-7736, ext. 30
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Lighthouse Design Ships ParaSheet 1.0 for NEXTSTEP
NOVEMBER 15, 1994 - SAN MATEO, CA - Lighthouse Design, Ltd. today
announced that it has shipped ParaSheet 1.0, a traditional rows
and columns spreadsheet, to the object-oriented NEXTSTEP operating
environment.
ParaSheet is a general-purpose spreadsheet, providing a familiar
rows and columns approach to spreadsheet analysis. Dynamic linking
between multiple spreadsheets and a powerful mathematics engine
for every type of financial analysis and accounting task make
ParaSheet ideal for users transitioning from PC platforms. ParaSheet
features a robust and comprehensive macro scripting language, as
well as support for customized, user-definable functions.
"ParaSheet fills a crucial market gap," said Jonathan Schwartz,
president of Lighthouse Design. "Our largest enterprise customers
have been seeking a strong two dimensional spreadsheet from
Lighthouse, as an extension to their current Lighthouse desktop
and a replacement for other products. ParaSheet is the perfect
starting point for those users, and the first of many offerings
Lighthouse will be presenting in the spreadsheet arena-an arena in
which our customers will be hearing a lot from us in the upcoming
year."
ParaSheet is compatible with the popular PC spreadsheets, as well
as with Lighthouse Design's Quantrix-a multi-dimensional spreadsheet
used by developers for its robust API and real-time engine, and by
end-users who require sophisticated financial analysis tools.
Quantrix 1.0 will begin shipping later this month.
ParaSheet includes full support for a wide variety of charts, as
well as real-time rotation of 3-D chart types, and fine control
over chart color, label and legend type and display, axis scaling
and markup, and full support for copy/paste and NEXTSTEP 3.0 Object
Links.
ParaSheet includes extensive function libraries organized by
mathematics, statistics, accounting, logic, time/date, selection/lookup,
and formatting and grouping. ParaSheet also provide inter-sheet
linking, allowing cells in one worksheet to reference other worksheets
and views.
ParaSheet is an important addition to Lighthouse Design's growing
line of products, which now includes Diagram!, a drawing program
for information graphics; Concurrence, a presentation and outlining
package; Quantrix, a multi-dimensional spreadsheet and financial
analysis tool; VarioData, a multi-user workgroup database; TaskMaster,
a project and resource management application; WetPaint, a painting
and image manipulation program; and the Foundation Classes, a
library of reusable objects for custom developers. Lighthouse is
also an authorized reseller of Frame Technology Corporation's
FrameMaker 3.2 on NEXTSTEP for Intel, the industry's premier document
publishing package.
ParaSheet is available now for the Intel-, Motorola- and HP
PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2 or later. ParaSheet is priced
at $595. Site licenses are available as well as academic discounts.
Lighthouse Design is dedicated to delivering unsurpassed productivity
to enterprise developers and end-users of NEXTSTEP and OpenStep.
The company is located at 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA 94403.
For further information on Lighthouse Design and its products,
contact Lighthouse Design, Ltd. directly at 1-800-366-2279 or
1-415-570-7736, or send electronic mail to in...@lighthouse.com, or
see Lighthouse Design's World Wide Web page at
http://www.lighthouse.com/.
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Lighthouse Design, Ltd., ParaSheet, Quantrix, Concurrence, Diagram!,
TaskMaster, WetPaint, VarioData, the Foundation Classes, and the
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