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...announced major moves that could have an impact on the balance of competitive power in the bruising software business. Apple said it will create a new programming company, to be financed with some of the manufacturer's $700 million cash hoard, while IBM announced a ten-year alliance with Lotus Development, the No. 2 software producer...
...deal will help Lotus (1986 sales: $282.8 million) strike back at its nemesis, Microsoft, which has zoomed past Lotus to become the industry's No. 1 company. Microsoft's rise was due in large part to an agreement with IBM to develop software for the manufacturer's personal-computer line. But now Lotus is getting an even more challenging IBM assignment: to adapt the top- selling Lotus 1-2-3 business-ledger software and other programs to much larger computers. Lotus would thus become the first company among its peers to graduate from personal computers to huge mainframes. The deal...
...Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM compatibles and Microsoft's Excel for the cuter personal computer's around campus are spreadsheet programs that allow users to crunch and compare numerous columns and rows of numbers are suitably mangled, they can be turned into snazzy graphs. IBM--compatible users will need a printer that can produce graphics, Mac users will find that the Imagewriter suffices...
Users of IBM compatibles who are dissatisfied with 1-2-3's graph programs might want to try Lotus' Freelance Plus. From 3-D plots to fancy bar graphs, Freelance Plus enables budding Hackers to spend hours producing publication-quality graphics. It is certainly a welcome alternative to the hours that could instead be spent with protractors, Pencils and markers...
From 2 to 4 p.m., spectators can watch an array of traditional Chinese dances such as the Lotus Dance, the Sword Dance, the Mongolian Dance and the Ribbon Dance during which a dancer nearly choked herself last year, organizers of the fete said...