On Sun, 11 Feb 1996 09:39:03 -0800, "Stan Griffiths" <w7ni@teleport.com>
wrote:
K1VR: All said and done, however, I have yet to hear why my
> >parallel to the Lotus 1-2-3 program, as a tool for financial
> >analysts or lay people, is inaposite.
>
W7NI: I guess all I can say on this is, knowing the little that I do about
Lotus 1-2-3, it appears to be a very general spreadsheet program and has
extremely wide applications. I don't know it well enough to know if there is
built-in advice on how to construct a financial analysis of a company such as
> Gimbles. If there is then I guess your comparison is a good one, if not,
> then I'd say Lotus 1-2-3 is not a specific enough program to lay any blame
> on the Lotus software writers.
K1VR:
In fact, both Excel and 1-2-3 include "templates" for doing
a variety of very specific calculations.
W0UN has suggested another parallel. There are half a dozen
tax prep software programs on the market. A tower software
writer could easily steal their disclaimer clauses.
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