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- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.065325.19859@cosoco.com>
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- From: rutgerson@cosoco.com (Susan Rutgerson)
- Organization: Component Software Corp., Lexington, MA USA
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:53:25 EST
- Subject: Component Workshop Feedback
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- COMPONENT WORKSHOP(tm) Mac V1.0 has been shipping for about 8 weeks now, and we
- are thrilled to have almost 200 new users. We appreciate all your feedback,
- and want you to know that we are listening, so we thought it would be a good time
- to give you a progress report.
-
- Many of our users are very happy, and impressed by what we have accomplished.
- Others have commented that while we have great potential, we are missing
- features. In response to that, we say, you're absolutely right, we do have
- some missing pieces.
-
- In the initial release of COMPONENT WORKSHOP, our emphasis has been on our
- unique and powerful OO technology. Since then, we have been listening to
- customer feedback and responding to it. For instance, at a training session,
- when asked for auto indenting, we wrote it and posted it on our bulletin board
- within a few short hours .
-
- So what's next?
-
- Version 1.1 of COMPONENT WORKSHOP, due out in April, will feature Application
- Framework printing, change sets (the ability to collect all the changes made
- since the last save and write them out as a text file), Application Framework
- enhancements including Floating Windows, Behaviors and Adorners, Graphical
- Menus, co-handling, lots of Goodies, and of course, the Extruder(tm). We are
- just beginning our QA process on all this code now.
-
- Version 1.2, due to ship in the September/October time frame will feature
- debugger stepping, modular additions, DAL, DAM/ODBC, support for the
- AppleEvent Object Model, more Application Framework enhancements, exception
- handling, Application Framework exceptions, and more goodies.
-
- Our strategy is simple, we want to seed the Mac Market with COMPONENT WORKSHOP
- in 1993. The $495 special is available until March 31, 1993, and includes the
- Extruder and V1.1. We have even priced the Annual Manintenance at $200.00,
- which would include V1.2, and a guaranteed 50% reduction off future upgrade
- prices.
-
- Stay tuned for our announcement of AppMaker for COMPONENT WORKSHOP which will
- be coming in the next month. The work is complete - it is now in test. We will
- be reselling it and providing it as an upgrade to existing AppMaker customers,
- as well as a new product from Component Software Corporation.
-
- We are in the process of producing a white paper on the key concepts of our
- object model with special emphasis on the letter/envelope idiom. Our users
- have said this would help them learn to use the product faster. Many of you
- have asked when Jeff Alger would do his follow up analysis of our product, and
- we're happy to report that once the Extruder is available, Jeff will be
- conducting a complete product review for Frameworks.
-
- We enjoyed seeing many of you at MacWorld and hope to see you at MADACON in
- San Diego February 15-19, where there will be a 36 hour COMPONENT WORKSHOP
- Hack-Off.
-
- For more info on COMPONENT WORKSHOP, link us with your address, or call us at
- 617/862-9700.
-
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