No. 12 NYPC 1-2-3 / S Y M P H O N Y N E W S L E T T E R Oct 84 ================================================== 1231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231231 2 +----------------------------------------------------------+ 2 3 | INSIDE NEWSLETTER (NEWSLETTER CONTENTS) 1 | 3 2 | SYMPHONY (LOTUS PROGRAMS) 4-11 | 2 1 | OTHER GURUS (LOTUS COMPETITORS) 14-23 | 1 2 | WHO'S ON 1 2 AND 3 (CLUB PARTICIPATION) 25 | 2 3 | LOTUS ENLIGHTENMENT (CLUB COURSES) 26-27 | 3 1 | WELCOME TO LIBRARY (CLUB SOFTWARE) 29 | 1 2 | SHAKABUKU (CLUB NEXT MEETING) 30 | 2 3 | FEEDBACK FORM (CLUB FEEDBACK) 31 | 3 1 +----------------------------------------------------------+ 1 2312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312 I N S I D E O U R N E W S L E T T E R Welcome to the N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony We were very pleased to have over Users Group. Our Newsletter is 50 students enroll in our initial divided into two sections: presentation of Symphony courses. Both the Beginning and Advanced Courses will be repeated, starting SECTION 1:LOTUS NEWS. Pages 4-23. January 7. See page 26 for details. Here we feature news about the latest products related to 1-2-3 We are also delighted to report and Symphony, how the two Lotus that according to the lastest Programs are doing on the current popularity ratings, Symphony and popularity charts, and what new 1-2-3 are now running neck-in-neck "goodies" Lotus' competitors claim for leadership in the integrated to offer. software market, with Framework trailing far behind. See pages 4 and 14 for more information on SECTION 2:CLUB NEWS. Pages 25-30. Symphony's spectactular success. Our club activites are outlined on page 25. On page 31, you have an Our next meeting will include a opportunity to become an active talk by Doug Cobb, editor of the participant in the New York 1-2-3/ Symphony Users Journal, on why he Symphony Users Group. It's as believes Symphony is a superior easy as 1-2-3. program to Framework. See p. 6. =============================================================== The N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony Users Group is a Special Interest Group of the N.Y. IBM P.C. Users Group. For N.Y. IBM PC Users Group information, call 533-NYPC. Current N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony Membership . . 756 T O O U R F O R U M R E A D E R S This is the first Newsletter which Naturally, we will be quite we are including in the "World of interested in your comments or Lotus" Forum. suggestions. As indicated on pages 9 and 10 of We would also welcome your this Newsletter, we are quite participation in our Users Group. excited about the "World of Lotus" While we are based in New York, we and its potential to help Forum have over 250 subscribers from Members make more effective use of outside the New York City their 1-2-3 and Symphony Programs. Metropolitan area. The Newsletter, as it appears on The Newsletter is being made your screen, is identical to the available to you free of charge. Newsletter which we are However, we have considerable distributing to our Members except expenses in preparing the for the following pages: Newsletter. We would appreciate it if you would also subscribe to our All ads have been removed from the Newsletter or send us a donation to World of Lotus copy. This omits help our Users Group meet some of pages 2, 3, 12, 13, 24 and 28. these expenses. See the last page for information on the address Page 5 is a typewritten form of the where you may send your Softsel information which appears subscription or donation. in our Newsletter. We also welcome advertisers to Special print attributes and page participate in our Newsletter. breaks have been eliminated to While the ads have been omitted facilitate on-line reading. from the Newsletter appearing in the World of Lotus Forum, we do The Newsletter, as it appears on maintain a loyal group of the Bulletin Board, may be advertisers who have found the downloaded and copied by any Forum Newsletter beneficial in promoting member. their products. -2- T H E M U S I C B E G I N S Within one month of the release of Softsel's chairman David Wagman, Symphony to the public on July 3, (Computer Systems News 9/10-41) the younger sibling of 1-2-3 reports that "Softsel has shipped accomplished a feat unable to be more units (of Symphony) in less achieved by any other "rival" of time than any other product." 1-2-3. According to forecasts of software Softsel reported, in its survey seers, the future for Symphony ending August 7, that Symphony had remains equally bright. surpassed the hitherto unabeatable 1-2-3 in sales. This marks the Harvey Bundy (Computer Systems New first time since the advent of 9/10-47) predicts that Symphony's 1-2-3 over 18 months ago that 1-2-3 sales will stabilize at between did not appear in the #1 position. 25,000 and 30,000 at year end, making it either #1 or #2 in sales Two months later, Softsel reports over the next year, probably (see opposite page) that Symphony dependent upon how strongly 1-2-3 continues to run neck-and-neck with continues to be demanded. 1-2-3, except that 1-2-3 has once again regained its long-held #1 Similarly, Jim Seymour, a columnist position. However, since Symphony for PC Week (6/7-25), predicts, "I is also represented by a companion think Lotus will probably ship product, "1-2-3 to Symphony", which 100,000 of their $200 Symphony stands at #7, it is possible that upgrades in the last half of the sales of the two Symphony 1984." products, if combined, would retain the coveted #1 position for Seymour adds: "Getting the product Symphony. onto 100,000 desks in six months is known as `capturing the market'." Just how close the intra-family rivalry of Symphony and 1-2-3 is, The New York Times reports was detailed in a recent issue of (10/12-D2): "As a result of the Computer Systems News (9/10-41). success of its Lotus 1,2,3 and CSN reports that during the first Symphony programs, sales at Lotus two months after Symphony was have risen dramatically in the last introduced, Symphony sold 65,000 year. It posted revenues of $53 copies while 1-2-3 was only million during 1983, its first year slightly ahead with 70,000. of operation, and industry analysts expect revenues to reach $140 Framework, Symphony's arch-rival, million to $160 million this year." while briefly appearing in That's a three-fold increase over Softsel's top ten during August, an historic first year! has now skidded out of this favored list, and has fallen to the The stock market has duly taken disappointingly low position of notice of Symphony's spectacular #20. See p. 16 for more details on success. Since the public release the suprisingly poor showing of of the Symphony program, the price Framework in the closely-watched of Lotus stock has increased Symphony-Framework contest. approximately 50%. -4- T H E M U S I C B E G I N S (Continued) S O F T S E L H O T L I S T (tm) ------------- ----- ------- WEEK OF OCTOBER 8, 1984 This Week 1 1-2-3 2 Symphony 3 PFS:File 4 Multiplan 5 Chart 6 PFS:Write 7 PFS:Report 8 1-2-3 to Symphony 9 Filevision 10 Thinktank ----------------------------------- 20 Framework ----------------------------------- The HOT LIST is compiled from Softsel sales to over 9,000 retail outlets in 50 states and 45 countries. -5- T H E M U S I C B E G I N S (Continued) Since the introduction on February We are also be presenting this same 14 of the Symphony Program, the disk of Lotus Contest Macros to our N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony Users Group Members through our Software has been honored to have three Library. See page 29 for details presentations by Lotus of the on how to obtain our public domain Symphony Program, including a live Symphony disks. demonstration in July of the Symphony Program by Chris Morgan, We are currently forming, within Vice-President of Communications our Users Group, a Subgroup devoted for Lotus. to actual users of the Symphony Program. This group will be headed In conjunction with Chris' talk, we by Barbara Brown of Morgan presented in the June and July Guaranty. See page 25 for details issues of our Newsletter a two part on this new Subgroup. interview with him on questions which we have found of greatest The unexpected acclaim accorded interest to our Members concerning earlier this year by the computer the Symphony Program. media to a rival of Symphony, Framework, has resulted in creating We are following up our initial a contest between Lotus and presentations of Symphony with Ashton-Tate of historic importance. monthly articles in our newsletter providing the latest news about Because of the significance of this Symphony and its major competitors. contest and its impact on the future of the microcomputing We are also about to offer, for the industry, the N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony second time, two courses in Users Group decided to embark on an Symphony - Beginning and Advanced - extensive program to aid our which will begin on January 7. We members in reaching their own are delighted to report that over conclusions in the Great 50 students enrolled in the Symphony-Framework Debate. See Beginning and Advanced Symphony page 14 for details. Courses during the first time they were offered in September - Next month, Doug Cobb, author of November of this year. See page 26 the textbook, "Mastering Symphony", for details on our Symphony and publisher of the Symphony Users Courses. Journal, will be concluding our presentation of the Symphony We were delighted to have been able Framework debate with a talk to include a set of Macros in our detailing why he believes Symphony Advanced Course which were initally is a superior product to Framework. developed at Lotus, as part of a Doug's talk will be the counterpart Contest conducted internally to to Adam Green's presentation in promote the understanding and August, where he claimed appreciation of Symphony's Command Framework's superiority to the Language. Symphony Program. -6- T H E M U S I C B E G I N S (Continued) In conjunction with Doug Cobb's On word processing, Cobb states, appearance before our next Users "Symphony's word processor is the Group meeting, we are including easiest part of the program to within this Newsletter excerpts learn and use. That ease of use from a review which Doug recently does not imply that Symphony's word wrote on Symphony. processor is an incomplete program. On the contrary, Symphony is one of Cobb's article begins, "Do you the most functional word processors remember how you felt when you we have seen." first saw Lotus 1-2-3 in action? If you were like me, after a few Cobb concludes, "By now, it should minutes of watching 1-2-3 operate, be clear that Symphony is, in my you began to think of all the ways opinion, an excellent program." you could use the program, and a small smile crept onto your face. He ends his review on an When I worked with Lotus' new interesting conjecture, "I think product, Symphony, for the first Symphony has a chance gradually to time I had exactly the same replace 1-2-3 as the number one feeling; only this time the smile business software product." was a full-fledged grin. Cobb then goes on to elaborae on Doug Cobb's review is typical of why he regards Symphony as an the numerous other evaluations of "incredible product". Symphony which we have noted in our previous issues. With regard to the windowing capa- bility, he states, "Probably the For example, Popular Computing most obvious change in Symphony, is presented a highly laudatory review the program's windowing system. of Symphony, which we included in Once you get the hang of it, the May issue of our Newsletter. Symphony's windows are fairly easy In that review, Paul Bonner, Senior to manage, and they add terrific Editor of Popular Computing, flexibility to the program." writes, "Symphony is aptly titled. When you add together the parts Cobb says of Symphony's graphics, played by each of the sections of a "Probably the nicest feature of symphonic orchestra or by each of Symphony is its ability to display the applications within Symphony, a worksheet and a graph on the the results is something uniquely screen at the same time." powerful and compelling. Symphony includes and integrates all of the On the database function, he most popular productivity writes, "Symphony's data base is applications as elegantly as any substantially improved over 1-2-3's system on the personal computer data base. With the combination of market. Because of that, it would the enchance data base and the new be a wise choice for many people to Symphony Command Language, Lotus is make Symphony the first program clearly challenging the stand-alone they ever buy. It could end up programmable data base managers being the only program they'll ever (especially dBASE II)." need." -7- T H E M U S I C B E G I N S (Continued) During the past five months, the As part of this seminar, Lotus N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony Users Group presented the participants with a has been preoccupied with the program called Decode.exe, a historic confrontation between valuable aid to add-in developers Symphony and Framework for and others who wish to understand supremacy in the integrated the specific layouts of the software market. Symphony and 1-2-3 files. We are delighted to report that we are The surprisingly poor showing of making the Decode.exe program Framework in this Contest and the available to our Members via the spectacular success of Symphony Software Library. See page 29. (see page 4), now permits our Users Group to turn its attention from One example of the new literature the Symphony-Framework Contest to to come out of Symphony's success providing its members with more is the Symphony Users Journal, effective ways of utilizing published by our next speaker, Doug Symphony to meet their programming Cobb. This is a monthly periodical needs. dedicated to users of the Symphony Program. Regular features of the Although the Symphony Program was Journal will include major articles released only a few months ago, about each of Symphony's numerous vendors, anticipating the components, a monthly column on the popularity which Symphony has Symphony Command Language, and achieved, announced plans to reviews of products designed to produce add-ins, templates, enhance the Symphony Program. utilities, literature, etc. to supplement the Symphony Program. Forthcoming issues of our Newsletter will focus heavily on In addition, it has been reported the burgeoning number of books, (Computers & Electronics 9/84-112) disks, videotapes, templates, that Lotus itself will be offering utilities, and add-ins which are add-ins to Symphony in such areas being daily announced to meet the as spelling checkers, project needs of Symphony Users, as well as management, and appointment the many computers being announced calendars. as providing Symphony support. Seminars sponsored by Lotus were As one example, we cite a recent ad recently held in Boston and San of NCR (New York Times 10/11-D15) Francisco, where Lotus offered which carries the following detailed information to prospective headline: "THE PERFECT INSTRUMENT add-in developers on how they may FOR YOUR SYMPHONY IS NOW PERFORMING cooperate with Lotus in marketing AT AN NCR DEALER NEAR YOU." Sounds their add-ins. One of the a lot like the ads appearing participants, Enno Bekker, has regularly in the media in which kindly provided our Newsletter with vendors attempt to promote their a detailed account of the seminar's products by having them associated activities (see page 11). with 1-2-3. -8- R E A C H I N G O U T T O L O T U S One of the more significant Each month, Lotus publishes its own developments to come out of Newsletter, called the "Lotus Symphony has been the "World of Newsletter", which appears on the Lotus", a Bulletin Board System World of Lotus BBS. Lotus now sponsors on CompuServe. The September issue contained the Purchasers of Symphony are following articles: automatically entitled to one hour of free time on World of Lotus as a 1. Lotus Compatibility result of their purchase of the 2. 1-2-3/Symphony Exchange Program Symphony Program. It is difficult 3. 1-2-3 - Did you know? to see how they can resist becoming 4. Symphony - Did you know? a steady user of this System. 5. Symphony Questions and Answers 6. Symphony Courseware Many of you may, in fact, be 7. 1-2-3 for the PC Jr. reading this Newsletter from the 8. Tips on Using 1-2-3. World of Lotus Bulletin Board, since our Newsletter is available The feature of the World of Lotus to users of World of Lotus users to we found most exciting was the both observe and download. Symphony User Forum. It is possible, in this Forum, to ask any The World of Lotus contains so many question whatsoever about Symphony valuable features that we can only and expect a reply within 24-48 summarize a few of the major ones hours. Furthermore, a user can in this article. We will be going browse through approximately 200 into much more detail on the questions and answers of other benefits of this System in members of the Forum. The subsequent issues. information which can be obtained in this manner about Symphony is We also found that the Symphony incredibly invaluable. Program's communications features were extremely helpful in accessing The XA Files, while technically a World of Lotus. See the following part of the Symphony User Forum, page for a complete description of offer a distinct but equally how we used Symphony's commu- important benefit to Symphony nications system in conjunction users. On these files appear with the World of Lotus BBS. numerous examples of Macros and other Symphony programs, each of which can be downloaded without In this issue of our Newsletter, we cost by a World of Lotus user. As will focus on three major features well as being of benefit in their of the World of Lotus: intended area of application, the XA files are extraordinarily . The Lotus Newsletter helpful as an educational tool in . The Symphony User Forum mastering the fine points of the . The XA Files Symphony Program. -9- I N P E R F E C T H A R M O N Y by Dr. Bernard Backhaut This section of the Newsletter is Once having captured information devoted to applications which our into our spreadsheet, we were later Users Group is making of the able to browse through the captured Symphony Program. data off-line. We then further removed any unwanted messages and In the July and August Newsletters, edited those messages which were of we explained how the Word interest to us. Processing features of Symphony have been extremely helpful in World of Lotus contains many writing our Users Group Newsletter. Symphony files of value to our Members, which have been donated by In this issue, we discuss how the Lotus to users on a public domain communications features of Symphony basis. We were easily able to are currently aiding us in download these files, using the obtaining important information for Symphony File-Transfer command. our Members from the World of Lotus Bulletin Board (see page 9 for a At one time, we had a question description of the World of Lotus about Symphony which required Lotus System). to examine a file of ours. We were able to upload this file to Lotus Symphony's communications package without effort, using an option in permits the login of our Users the File-Transfer command. Group computer with the World of Examination of the uploaded file Lotus to occur in a completely enabled Lotus to answer our automatic fashion. The entire question readily. sequence of keystrokes, from the beginning of the call to the World One of our members wanted some of Lotus, until access of the information which we had obtained Symphony Users Forum is from the World of Lotus. The accomplished, happens automatically Wait-Mode command enabled our through presetting appropriate computer to answer the member's parameters on a Communications call automatically and ready a Settings Sheet. connection with his computer for transmittal of the data to him. Once having logged in to the Lotus Bulletin Board, we were then able, As is evident from the above by utilizing Symphony's capture discussion, we have found the mode, to transfer information of Symphony communications package a importance about Symphony, from the tremendous aid in simplifying our World of Lotus BBS to a Symphony interactions with the World of spreadsheet on our computer. Lotus Bulletin Board System and enabling us to obtain information Moreover, we are able easily to of benefit to our Members. selectively capture only messages from the Lotus BBS of interest to In the next issue, we will describe our Users Group, because the how the Data Base features of Capture facility of Symphony has Symphony have helped us in the capability to be turned off and reorganizing our Mailing List and on merely by pressing the Capture in printing Labels for our function key repeatedly. Newsletter. -10- C O M E J O I N T H E B A N D by Enno Becker Lotus is enlisting independent The Library Manager, known inform- software developers to extend ally as "Hyperspace", is an espec- Symphony's capabilities into new ially exciting feature for Symphony areas by providing technical spec- programmers. Once a macro has been ifications and new programming developed in the usual way, it may tools for 1-2-3 and Symphony. In a be removed from the worksheet and series of Technical Conferences for placed in a special area in memory. Independent Developers held re- The Range Names remain active and cently in Boston and San Francisco, the code has the same effects when Lotus released previously pro- executed. The macros remain prietary information and announced present, as worksheet files are several new programming tools. saved and retrieved. The Worksheet File Format for both In the most far-ranging discussion 1-2-3 and Symphony has been of the day, Lotus software dev- published by Lotus. The codes and opment engineers described Sym- layouts used in the variable-length phony's Add-in Tools facility. records are completely described in Using procedures and object modules a document which may be obtained from Lotus, qualified independent from the User Group Software developers will soon be able to Library (see page 29). write applications which become part of Symphony, sharing access to Lotus has also developed and re- the worksheet and user interface. leased to the public domain a The creation of an Add-In requires program called DECODE.EXE. The sophisticated programming in C or program will read any WKS or WRK assembly language. file and print a record by record translation. DECODE.EXE can also As a system designer involved in be obtained from our Software several Symphony projects, I Library. believe that the new products will increase confidence in Symphony's Three products were announced for capabilities as a foundation for release in the first quarter of specialized applications. 1985. The 1-2-3 Macro Conversion Aid will perform a direct trans- I am currently involved in tion from 1-2-3 code to the Sym- standardizing Symphony programming phony equivalent. The Range Input techniques for more effective use Add-In will create a Symphony in large projects. Readers who are capability similar to the Range interested in additional infor- Input command of 1-2-3. The mation about the conference or in Command Language Library Manager discussing Symphony programming will allow macro programs to be techniques are invited to contact logically separated from data. me at (212) 807-9206. -11- O T H E R G U R U S A-to-Z All-in-1 Unison SeriesOnePlus Jack2 SuperCalc3 TMakerIII VisiCalcIV 4 in 1 Integrated7 20-20 Peachtext5000 Electric Desk Soft Office Silicon Office Integrated Office Assistant MBA KnowledgeMan Number Cruncher Business Manager Information Mgr Report Manager Decision Manager Consultant Professional Executive Profit Center Framework Grid Benchmark Latitude Easy Practical Intuit Smart Ability Enable Handle Personal Decision Open Access Golden Gate Propel Starburst Aura It Ovation Encore Lisa Jane Oman Hello Charlie As is evident from the above list, Says PC Week of the Symphony - 1-2-3 and Symphony now have the Framework confrontation (5/22-3), distinction of attracting over 50 "Grab a ringside seat and watch two competitors. software heavyweights slug it out." However, during the past few Byte (7/84-119) suggested, "This months, it became evident to the summer's hottest battle won't be computer community that the Contest between rival baseball teams or had narrowed to a head-on clash even rival football leagues, but between Lotus' Symphony and between the purveyors of integrated Ashton-Tate's Framework. software." Computer Advertising News The New York Times (5/28-34) (6/30-10), in a full page story dramatically depicted the status about the Symphony-Framework and importance of this Contest: advertising duel, began its "The attention of the industry is coverage with the observation, focused on a battle brewing between "Neither the Democratic and two of the biggest and best-known Republican conventions nor the players: Lotus, based in Cambridge, Olympic games figure to be as Mass., and Ashton-Tate of Culver bitterly fought as this summer's City, Calif." other contest - the battle between Lotus and Ashton-Tate." Continued the Times: "The success of these two products may deter- PC Magazine portrayed the intensity mine which company becomes the of the conflict as follows: "War premier provider of office produc- seems to be the appropriate word to tivity software to the nation's describe Ashton-Tate's marketing largest customers." strategy for Framework." -14- O T H E R G U R U S (Continued) The N.Y.1-2-3/Symphony Users Group, Our third speaker was Adam Green, recognizing the historic importance one of the chief critics of of the Symphony-Framework Contest, Symphony and a leading proponent of is presenting a program of Framework. Adam Green made a activities over a span of five "live" presentation of Framework months which we believe will equip before our group and engaged in a our Members to go beyond "watching heated discussion with our members two software heavyweights slug it about the relative merits of out" and will actually provide them Symphony and Framework. with enough information to reach an appropriate choice in this historic Our fourth presentation was a decision. point-by-point comparison of Symphony and Framework by See the July Newsletter for a Press Micro-Trek, with "live" Release we issued describing in presentations of the two programs detail the five month agenda of side-by-side. Members were able to activities we are presenting, observe the relative advantages of associated with the Symphony the two programs when performing Framework confrontation. similar tasks. Our agenda began with an kick-off Our five part series concludes with talk by Michelle Preston on the a talk by Douglas Cobb on November topic, "Symphony and the Future of 7. His talk will be the Integrated Software". Michelle counter-part of Adam Green's Preston is widely regarded as one presentation. Adam Green indicated of the leading financial analysts why he believed Framework was a on Wall Street, and her talk, superior program to Symphony. Doug coming on the eve of the release of Cobb will defend the opposite the Symphony and Framework position, in explaining why he Programs, was regarded of great believes that Symphony is a significance to the computer superior program to Framework. community. Doug Cobb is currently in the Our second meeting featured a forefront of the Symphony "live" presentation of Symphony by community, having written an Chris Morgan, Vice President of outstanding textbook entitled, Communications for Lotus and the "Mastering Symphony" and having principal spokesperson of the established a new periodical, Company to the computer community. called, "The Symphony Users We were also fortunate to have Journal." In addition to Doug's Chris offer our Newsletter a two comments on the Symphony-Framework part interview on Symphony, which debate, members will have an we included in the July and August opportunity at our meeting to learn issues. more about his Users Journal. -15- OTHER GURUS (Continued) While we have been delighted to On page 24, under the title, have been able to play a major role "A Crack in the Framework" appear in the in the Symphony-Framework several of the the reasons why debate during the past six months, software users have turned to we are also happy to report that Symphony over Framework in Symphony, with each passing week, overwhelming numbers. In its is more clearly establishing itself reviews of Framework, the computer as the winner in this historic press has provided an incredible software confrontation. array of reasons why consumers should be wary about using the The debate over the merits of Framework program. Symphony and Framework continues in the computer media, but by now the The computer community reaction to integrated software users, the the Symphony Framework debate has ultimate judges in this contest, been extensively reported in the have had an adequate opportunity to computer press. For example, cast their votes. PC Week (7/3-14) declared Symphony to be an early victor in this As shown on pages 4 and 5 of our Contest under the banner headline, newsletter, Symphony is running "Survey Sees Symphony Winning 1st neck and neck with 1-2-3 for first Movement." place in the integrated software market. This has been the case Stated PC Week: "The well since early July, when Symphony was publicized confrontation between first introduced to the public. Lotus's Symphony and Ashton-Tate's Framework begins this week, and Framework, on the other hand, while indications are that the first briefly in the top 10 during the round will go to Lotus." first week of its introduction, slipped almost immediately out of Observed PC Week (7/3-1) "Symphony the top 10, and has almost was shipped on time; Framework continuously fallen since then, to missed deadline." now occupy the unenviable position of #20 in the business software Harvey Bundy III, a software market. industry analyst with Chicago's William Blair & Co., said that a Enough time has now passed and delay of more than a month could enough votes have been cast in this hurt Framework sales by as much as Contest to make it highly unlikely 20% if the products are roughly that Framework will ever equivalent (PC Week 7/10-4). effectively compete with Symphony. So what was billed as a major Bundy also observed, "I've heard contest between Framework and lots of people say, `When do I get Symphony has in fact turned out to Symphony?' I haven`t heard anybody be a runaway victory for Symphony. say `When do I get Framework?'" -16- OTHER GURUS (Continued) PC Week continues, "Interviews with The InfoWorld article concludes PC coordinators of 10 medium sized with a quote from Dr. Bernard to large businesses turned up Backhaut, Chairperson of the N.Y. substantial interest in Symphony. 1-2-3/Symphony Users Group: "We Only two were unaware of the took a poll of our users and found product. Five said they planned to that 80 percent were going to buy at least one copy for upgrade to Symphony." evaluation, and, of those, four said they could forsee uses for The failure of Framework to provide several copies." significant competition to Symphony in the judgment of the "bottom On the other hand, PC Week found line" judges - the computer user that "only four of the 10 were community - should come as no aware of Framework, and only two suprise to followers of the said they expected to compare it integrated software marketplace. with Symphony." Recent news stories have depicted the collapse or demise of several would-be challengers of Lotus Similarly, InfoWorld (9/24-12), products. writing under the banner, "Symphony Leads Framework - Many Users For example, InfoWorld carries the Upgrading from 1-2-3", reports, following headline in its October 1 "Lotus Development's Symphony has issue, page 13: "Business Solutions made a fast break out of the Folds - Lack of venture capital and starting gate in its integrated poor sales are cited." software race with Ashton-Tate's Framework. Many users of Lotus' The article begins, "Business 1-2-3 are upgrading with the "1-2-3 Solutions Inc. in King Park, New to Symphony" product, and dealers York, is folding because of report many customers are buying insufficient venture capital the Symphony package outright. funding and lack of sales of its much-touted integrated product, The InfoWorld article continues Jack2." with a quote from Craig Fertal of Quest Computers, a computer dealer Earlier this year, Jack2 had staged in Palo Alto, California, "I can't a major advertising campaign, speak for other dealers, but I've claiming its superiority over 1-2-3 sold one copy of Framework and 10 in a public contest, whose results copies of the Symphony upgrade." were strongly criticized in the computer press by Dr. Backhaut. InfoWorld reports: "The five ComputerLand outlets of Phoenix, The InfoWorld article reports that Arizona have had experiences Business Solutions had spent similar to Quest's. `We've got a $3 million to $5 million in lot of orders in for the Symphony promoting Jack2, prior to the upgrade,' says Pat Perelli, `We've product's collapse. One can only also sold 25 copies of Symphony in speculate how much Framework will the last week. We've started off spend contesting Symphony before it real light with Framework.'" will reach a similar conclusion. -17- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K A considerable number of criticisms PC Week (8/7-124) also notes, of Framework have now appeared in "Framework cannot automatically the computer press. convert keystrokes to upper case, so a programmer developing an In this article, we review the application must make it test major criticisms of Framework which separately for upper- and have recently appeared in ten of lower-case responses to user the leading computer journals. prompts. PC Week (4/7-1) points out that, Personal Software (7/84-99) claims unlike Symphony, Framework cannot that Framework appears to run run on a single disk drive system, slower than 1-2-3. making it unadaptable to use on portable computer systems. The article also notes that Framework Computer and Electronics (8/84-43) is not aimed at number-crunchers. points out that, with respect to Framework's alleged superiority in In a subsequent issue, PC Week word processing capabilities, (7/10) reports "Company spokesmen superscripting and subscripting announced that Ashton-Tate has have not been included in scrapped its plan to recommend use Framework, no page breaks within a of the product on PCS with a mere frame are possible, and a section 256K bytes of memory. Instead it of a document cannot be referenced will recommend the use of PC's with by page number - the frame must be a minimum of 384K bytes. Since paged through a screen at a time. Lotus is advising a minimum of 320K bytes for Symphony, the change Furthermore, C&E reports that means Framework will lose tha Framework does not have the advantage of being able to run on a capability to "jump" directly to a smaller system than Symphony and it specific cell - entering data in will pick up the disadvantage of other than row order requires two requiring an even larger one." keystrokes between each entry instead of one. And in a later issue(7/17-3), PC Week remarks, "Framework stores The Computers & Electronics review data in memory much less also claims that adding and efficiently than competing deleting rows is more clumsy than products. A 384K byte system can in competitor's products. handle a speadsheet of 1,860 cells or 270 database records of 10 The Computers & Electronics article fields each or 42 pages of text." concludes, "Framework's greatest Comments Ashton-Tate's president, weakness is that it does not David Cole, "This thing eat's tightly integrate the word memory. We knew it was a memory processing and spreadsheet hog all the way along." functions." -18- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K (Continued) Byte (8/84-122) points out, "On a Popular Computing (9/84-102) warns, monochrome monitor, Framework's "The automatic linking accomplished word processor does not produce by Symphony's single worksheet is true what-you-see-is-what-you-get not in effect in Framework. output." Indeed, if you want one frame to reflect changes made in another, Byte also warns that even though you must interlock them overtly by Framework offers a DOS window, "As inserting a reference to the second Framework cannot control all the frame in the first." screen handling routines employed by an external program, it may not Popular Computing adds, "Those be possihle to run within a partial whose work involves complex screen window - the program itself analyses of numerical data and the might grab the whole screen." creation of reports based on such analyses will probably be happier As for the much heralded outlining with Symphony." feature of Framework, Byte offers the following reservation, "This is the first time that outline Robert Quinn, in Computer Living, processing has been brought into (8/84-8) observes, "Symphony's form integrated business software as a creation seems to be easier, more major organizing feature. It is flexible, more powerful, and can unfamiliar and not necessarily handle more records than Framework. suited to the working styles that For example, using a 512K RAM IBM the software marketplace has caused PC, I created identical databases many users to adopt." in each package which had five fields, each having nine List (8/84-104) cautions, characters. Framework would accept "Virtually everything you do with slightly under 600 records before I Framework must be broken down into got a "memory full" message. categories and organized in a Symphony accepted more than 2,800 logical manner. In word records." processing, particularly, you're forced to do this because of the With regard to communications, the 32K size limit of any individual Computer Living article says, frame." "Framework's communications mode was something of a last-minute List also notes, "In its graphics patch job." mode, Framework is limited to traditional business graphs, and it The article also compares the speed must derive its data from a of the Symphony and Framework spreadsheet. Framework lacks the pacages and reports: "Framework powerful Lisa-like free-draw seems to be considerably slower capability." doing spreadsheet calculations." -19- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K (Continued) Personal Computer World (8/84-120) The Personal Computer World article warns a potential Framework user, also notes, "An interesting feature "If you want to include spreadsheet of Symphony which is not permitted data in a word processor document, in Framework is the ability to you have to get devious and contain change the type of a window." frames within frames. Although this works, it is very clumsy, and The same article observes, getting the imported data exactly "Symphony's spreadsheet calcu- where you want it can be a lations are decidely faster than problem." those of Framework's. Ashton-Tate claims that Framework's spreadsheet Adds Personal Computer World, "When can be used for accounts ledgers, you look at Symphony, you'll see cash flow analysis, job cost that it's much easier to estimates and budget preparation, incorporate selected spreadsheet yet it's worth questioning how easy data." it would be to implement this sort of project." Continues Personal Computer World, "If you inadvertently press a key To back up this contention, for too long, you can be treated to Personal Computer World reports a a lengthly sequence of redraws benchmark test, which found that while the software catches up. integer and decimal recalculation This sequence can take several time for Framework was 2 rows per seconds to finish and is second while for Symphony, it was unstoppable." 48 rows per second, making Symphony 24 times as fast as Framework in The Personal Computer World article this task. considers in detail the capability to switch modes from spreadsheet to PC Magazine (11/13-35) reports, word processing and concludes, "The battle for supremacy between "This ability to switch modes on the new "super" integrated software the fly is one of the most packages has been given a new impressive aspects of Symphony. If wrinkle with the introduction of you attempted to perform the above the IBM PC-AT." example in Framework, the job would be much more difficult." Continues PC Magazine, "The AT knocks Framework completely out of The same article adds, "Moving data the ring. Officials at Ashton-Tate is another area where Symphony would not reveal a patch or other scores heavily over Framework." method to retrofit the program for IBM's new computer." With regard to available functions, Personal Computer World observes, However, with regard to Symphony, "Symphony can offer: @ROUND, @RAND, PC Magazine adds, "Symphony gains @ISNUMBER and a few other functions the AT advantage over Framework. which have no counterpart in We found an easy way to get the Framework." program running on the AT." -20- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K (Continued) With regard to word processing, PC World concludes its discussion PC World (11/84-151) observes, on the data base module of "Changes in a document are not Framework by noting, "The most automatically recalculated on the critical function missing from the table of contents." PC World also DBMS is multiple-key sorts. Only notes, "Two features Framework does one field can be sorted at a time." not support are multiple fonts and proportional spacing." PC World next moves to communications, "The tele- With respect to spreadsheets, communications portion of PC World warns, "Advanced 1-2-3 Framework, called MITE, was users may find Framework's obviously tacked on at the last spreadsheet less powerful than they minute." Continues PC World, "MITE would like." In support of the does not use pull-down menus and it above statement, PC World observes, uses the function keys in a "The spreadsheet lacks the ability different way than the rest of to split screens and name ranges." Framework does." Furthermore, "you cannot point to a range by moving backwards. Adds PC World, "MITE's menus are not very helpful, and it requires a As for printing a spreadsheet, the separate data file for the numbers article cautions, "The ability to and parameters of each remote print a range is also omitted; the system you call." print function will only print the whole spreadsheet." The article in PC World next criticizes Framework's document- PC World agrees with the other ation, "The tutorial is only press reviews with regard to the marginally interactive and is lack of speed of Framework, "The almost an insult to the user's spreadsheet is not a speed demon intelligence." like Lotus Development's 1-2-3." PC World adds, "The biggest The PC World article also has this hurdle potential converts will face important warning, "My commercial is Framework's lack of emphasis on release of Framework does not huge spreadsheets." always save files on my PC. It works perfectly only about 60 PC World then turns its attention percent of the time on my PC. The to the data base mode of Framework, other 40 percent of the time, the "A spreadsheet and a data base can program hangs up without saving all be linked. However, only a one way my precious work, and I have to flow is possible - information from reboot to start the program. If the data base can go into the this problem persists, I predict a spreadsheet, but not vice versa." rocky road ahead for the program." Continues PC World, "Generating The author of the PC World article reports is not as simple as it adds, "I expect the key to should be. To organize and print toggle between the insert and any report other than the whole overtype modes, but in Framework data base, you will have to write a the key calls the last FRED program." pull-down menu you used." -21- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K (Continued) The PC World article quoted on the The author of a Framework review in previous page continues, "You can Microcomputing (11/84-62) begins, only move a block to the position "Right after I first began using after the cursor. Standard Framework, I started encountering practice is to insert before the system crashes. The computer would cursor. Because Framework inserts lock up and the only way out was a blocks after the cursor, you can cold start." never move a block to the first position in a frame. You have to Continues Microcomputing, "The most move it to the second position, dismaying part was that whatever then move whatever is ahead of it had been on the disk in the file I to the position behind it. This is was using was also gone, dumped out a roundabout and awkward method." like a child's toys on the floor." The PC World article also notes, If this were not enough of a "The clock in the upper right hand headache, Microcomputing continues, corner of the screen can be "In addition, the screen occasion- annoying. It ticks whether you ally locked up with what appeared want it to or not. Seeing that to be snow all over it." motion from the corner of my eye distracts me, but I can find no way Microcomputing also adds a speed to turn it off." test between Framework and Symphony, consisting of 26 columns In the same vein, the author of the and 50 rows. 1-2-3 took 4.12 PC World article requests, "I would seconds and Symphony 4.82 seconds, also like to be able to turn off about the same, but Framework took the twitching status line on the 45.61 seconds, approximately 10 bottom of the screen." times longer than either 1-2-3 or Symphony. (page 71) The author of the PC World article finally laments, "One other Microcomputing also found, with a weakness is the method of print 640K computer, "On Framework, you queueing. Framework writes a print can build a spreadsheet no larger file to the disk before printing it than 26 columns by 70 rows. In then it spools from the disk file Symphony, you can have a and eventually erases the file. If spreadsheet of 26 by 278." This there is not enough space on the gives Symphony an advantage in size disk, Framework will print from of approximately 4 to 1. memory. In that case, there is no spooling and you must wait for the Concludes Microcomputing, "Symphony file to print before you continue is still better with numbers and to work." spreadsheets than anything else available. It's the ideal Concludes the author, "This is one spreadsheeter's package. Financial of the weakest print spoolers I types, accountants and others have seen on a PC; it's only dealing in detailed numbers marginally better than no spooler analysis and modeling will be at all." comfortable with Symphony." -22- A C R A C K I N T H E F R A M E W O R K (Continued) We conclude our summary of PC Week then moves on to databases, Framework reviews with a recent only to report, "Unfortunately, 200 evaluation appearing in PC Week records was about the most we could (9/11-48). cram into the available workspace on our 512K byte system. Like the The article begins with an overall spreadsheet, Framework's database evaluation: "Our verdict? Frame- consumes an enormous amount of work is very sophisticated in a memory." number of ways but doesn't appear all too comfortable working within PC Week also notes,"Database sorts the memory and processor are limited to one field." constraints of the PC." And if you want to bring in dBASE files, PC Week cautions, "You'll Continues the PC Week article, "In have to allocate about 10 bytes of every formal and informal test Framework memory per single byte of situation we could devise, a dBASE file. There seems to be a Framework and its files appeared to 10 to one expansion of file size consume an inordinate amount of during the translation process." memory, and even on the 8087 equipped unit, to turn in sluggish PC Week concludes its review of performance." Framework with a discussion of the program's documentation, "Unfor- The article goes on to warn, "If tunately, we found the Fred you think this program is a documentation uninformative and replacement for the number obtuse. There is no tutorial on crunching capabilities of 1-2-3, Fred, not a single complete program heaven help you." example and not the slightest hint about where or how a Fred program Explains PC Week, "You can should be written or invoked. It's anticipate giving up 55 bytes of as if someone told you everything memory to each cell in your there is to know about cars, but spreadsheet. Any spreadsheet neglected to mention that you need larger than 50 columns by 100 rows a key to start the engine." will easily overtax a 512K byte system in no time." ------ Concludes PC Week about Framework's In this review of articles from ten spreadsheet capabilities, of the major computer publications, "Framework's performance as a we have attempted to present a "spreadsheet cruncher" leaves much comprehensive discussion of to be desired. A 10 by 50 cell Framework as reported in the templates that used the square root computer media. function (@SQRT) as well as a number squared, took one minute and However, we should note that for twenty seconds to recalculate. The 1-2-3 users, perhaps the most same formula recalculated in 17 important consideration is that seconds under Symphony on a they can obtain Symphony for only standard PC." (A ratio of about 5 $200 while Framework will cost to 1). $700, or $500 more. -23- W H O ' S O N 1 2 A N D 3 THE NY 1-2-3/SYMPHONY EXECUTIVE BOARD CHAIRPERSON BERNARD BACKHAUT 212-596-0772 (H) USER PHONE NETWORK BERNADETTE BEEKMAN 212-557-7439 (H) BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS JOHN GERMAN 212-559-4313 (W) BBS COORDINATOR JIM CLYDE 212-566-6799 (W) MIKE'S BBS GROUP JUDYTH POWERS 212-692-9393 (W) OPEN DISCUSSION GROUP STEVEN GOLDMAN 212-228-1116 (H) NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS JESUS BATISTA 201-542-7752 (H) NEWSLETTER DESIGN PAT JENNINGS 212-836-3855 (H) SOFTWARE LIBRARY AL MERKLE 718-939-4717 (H) SOFTWARE EVALUATION PRISCILLA TATE-AUSTIN 212-749-1222 (H) DEFENDER OF THE FAITH MORRIS STEMP 212-275-6124 (H) JOB BANK CHARLES BROWNING 212-335-8766 (H) CONTESTS HENRY BHALLA 212-947-2772 (W) FAIRS NIVIA CRUZ 212-799-7161 (H) PARAPHENALIA ELI KRUPNIK 212-674-6912 (H) USERS GROUP GUIDE ROBERT VARKONYI 212-539-1875 (H) SYMPHONY USERS GROUP BARBARA BROWN 212-587-2844 (W) CORPORATE GROUP THOMAS GILDAY 212-489-5949 (W) GRAPHICS GROUP ED STARK 212-595-7046 (H) WORD PROCESSING GROUP SHARON SWEENEY 212-586-6581 (H) MACRO GROUP ALICE WEISS 212-938-8879 (W) INVESTMENT GROUP HENRY HYMOFF 212-934-7061 (H) ACCOUNTING GROUP TOM STASKOWSKI 516-872-9394 (H) MEMBERSHIP THOMAS PELLEGRINI 212-836-7218 (H) Symphony Users. Job Bank. Barbara Brown of Morgan Guaranty is The Job Bank continues to receive organizing a Special Interest Group numerous calls from organizations for actual users of the Symphony in the New York area for persons Program. The purpose of this Group listed in the Job Bank who are is to provide mutual assistance to available for full or part time its Members in actual utilization work, utilizing 1-2-3 or Symphony. of the Symphony Program. Several large corporations have The activities of this Group will requested names from our Job Bank, depend upon the interests of its and we urge individuals with Members. Please contact Barbara expertise in 1-2-3 and Symphony to Brown for futher details. register. -25- ----------------------------------------------------- BEGINNING AND ADVANCED SYMPHONY COURSES TO BE REPEATED BY THE N.Y. 1-2-3/SYMPHONY USERS GROUP ----------------------------------------------------- The highly successful Beginning and We will be offering two courses - Advanced Symphony Courses being Beginning and Advanced - both offered by the New York 1-2-3/ meeting for five consecutive weeks, Symphony Users Group are to be one evening per week, from 7 p.m. repeated, beginning January 7. to 9 p.m. The Advanced Course will meet immediately following the completion of the Beginning Course. We are pleased to announce that Both courses will be taught by Money Magazine, published by Time Dr. Backhaut, Chairperson of the Inc., will be acting as the host to N.Y. 1-2-3/Symphony Users Group. our next Symphony Courses. The cost of each course is $50. Classes will be held in a large Because of the large interest Conference room at the World already expressed in these courses, Headquarters of Time Inc., in two sections will be made available Rockefeller Center, at 6th Avenue for each course, meeting on consec- and 50th Street. This location is utive Mondays or Tuesdays. However easily accessible from all areas of it is still recommended that stu- Manhattan. dents enroll as soon as possible, since space is limited. Classes Money Magazine will also be begin on January 7 and January 8. providing excellent computer facilities for use in the To enroll in a Symphony course, presentation of our courses. please complete the form below. NAME: __________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________ CITY: __________________________ STATE: ________________________________ WORK PHONE: _________________________ HOME PHONE: _______________________ BEGINNING: __________________________ ADVANCED: ________________________ MONDAY CLASSES: _____________________ TUESDAY CLASSES: _________________ To enroll, make out a check payable to NYPC and mail it to: Symphony Classes c/o Dr. Bernard Backhaut, 2 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 For further information, call 212-596-0772. -26- ------------------------------------------ OUTLINE FOR SYMPHONY COURSES OFFERED BY N.Y. 1-2-3/SYMPHONY USERS GROUP ------------------------------------------ BEGINNING COURSE ---------------- January 7, 8 Spreadsheets January 14, 15 Windows & Graphics January 21, 22 Word Processing January 28, 29 Data Base Management February 4, 5 Elementary Applications ADVANCED COURSE --------------- February 11, 12 Communications February 18, 23 Command Language - 1 February 25, 30 Command Language - 2 March 4, 5 Advanced Applications - 1 March 11, 12 Advanced Applications - 2 The text for the course is "Using Symphony" by Douglas Cobb. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Students enrolling in the Symphony Courses are presumed to have a "working" knowledge of 1-2-3. Those aspects of Symphony which also appear in 1-2-3 will be assumed to be known by the student. -27- W E L C O M E T O O U R L I B R A R Y by Al Merkle, Software Librarian Welcome to our Software Library. We will also be expanding our 1-2-3 We are happy to report that, library to include what our judges beginning with this month, we will deem to be the ten best submissions be offering disks for Symphony in our own 1-2-3 Contest. users, as well as continuing to provide software for 1-2-3 These disks, being outstanding enthusiasts. examples of the use of 1-2-3, are certain to be extremely popular All of our disks may be purchased with our Members. We are trying to for $8 at our Users Group meetings, have these disks assembled in a or for $10 by mail. Checks are to form appropriate for distribution be made out to NYPC and should be by our Library by the time the mailed to the addresses indicated Contest winners have been selected. below. We continue to offer the following The first two disks we will be 1-2-3 disks: offering to Symphony users were provided to our Club by Lotus. UTILITY 1-2-3. This has, so far, They are: been our most popular disk. Utility 1-2-3 is used in .Lotus Macro Contest Winners. This conjunction with 1-2-3 to gain more is a choice selection of Macros efficient and better looking drawn from a Contest held results. Included is an ASCII internally at Lotus to promote the character generator which will appreciation and understanding of allow the user to place any of the Symphony Macros. Anyone seriously 256 ASCII text characters on the considering the development of worksheet, and a Printer Control Symphony Macros should regard this Generator which will allow the disk as a "must." mixing of various font types and styles such as boldface, compressed .Decoding of 1-2-3 and Symphony print, and underlining. Files. This disk, also provided by Lotus to our Library, supplies KEY II DEMO DISKETTE. This demo users of Symphony and 1-2-3 with a diskette gives the user a great detailed byte-by-byte breakdown of introduction to KEY II, a very the Lotus files they create. While useful and time saving program. providing valuable insight into file structures to all users of TAX 4-5-6. A tax program that Lotus programs, the Decode disk helps keep track of, and calculates will be especially appreciated by your taxes. Includes printable, applications developers. IRS approved forms. Send your requests for Symphony Send your requests for 1-2-3 disks disks to: to: Symphony Disks 163 Joralemon Street Alphonse Merkle Suite 1102 PO Box 7557 Brooklyn NY 11201 Flushing NY 11352 -29- P L E A S E P O S T O N B U L L E T I N B O A R D NOTICE OF LOTUS 1-2-3/SYMPHONY USERS MEETING ============================================ NOVEMBER 7 CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE CENTER 33 WEST 42 STREET AT 5TH AVE. 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