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From: tracy@athena.com (Tracy Kugelman)
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Mesa 1.5 Announcement
Date: 29 Jul 1993 15:21:57 -0400
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**** Athena Design Announces Mesa 1.5 with Palettized Objects *****
Athena Design is pleased to announce that Mesa version 1.5 is now
available. Mesa 1.5 ships as a Multi-architecture ("fat") binary
for both NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors as well as NeXT computers
running NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher.
Mesa was recently given a "Best of Breed" Award at the 1993 NeXTWORLD
EXPO. Mesa's objects have been palettized to assist custom programmers
integrating Mesa into mission critical custom applications.
Other new features included in Mesa 1.5:
The Query Inspector is new and radically improved. It allows
update, insert, delete and "raw SQL".
Added support for drag & drop tabular text type for interoperability
with DataPhile.
Mesa now supports underlining within cells within the Cell Style
Inspector.
Mesa now supports a database server adaptor. This will allow the
creation of addins that will link to SQL servers other than Sybase
(the built-in default).
For Sale:
Mesa's price remains unchanged $499 suggested retail for the
commercial package, and $99 suggested retail for educational version.
Please contact your software reseller for purchases. Mesa is
available with a floating manager based on the number of concurrent
users.
Upgrades:
In keeping with Athena Design's policy of one year of upgrades for
Mesa, upgrades are available via anonymous ftp from the following
archives:
cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/demos/spreadsheets
ftp.cica.indiana.edu (directory unknown)
athena.com:/pub/Mesa
peanuts.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de:/pub/next/Demos
(please note that this machine is in Germany)
Documentation in PostScript format is available from athena.com:/pub/Mesa.
The upgrade on floppy disks is $10.00 US, and the manual set (the
User's Guide plus the Programmer's Guide) is also $10.00 US.
We cannot accept credit cards. Please send a check or money order
in US dollars to:
Athena Design
Attn. Upgrades
17 St. Mary's Court
Boston, MA 02146
USA
If you have any questions please contact:
Tracy Kugelman, Director tel. 1.617.734.MESA (6372)
Sales and Marketing fax 1.617.734.1130
NeXT Mail Welcome
tracy@athena.com
Thank you for making Mesa the number one selling spreadsheet for NEXTSTEP!
Athena Design was founded in 1989 by David Pollak to provide a
fulfilling and enriching work environment through the creation,
sales and support of high quality software for the NEXTSTEP operating
environment. In 1991 Athena Design released CultureShock, an
addictive game played all over the world. CultureShock is also
available for NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors and is available free
from selected archive sites. For more information about Mesa please
contact us at 1.617.734.6372 or info@athena.com.
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