Quattro Pro is more than capable of handling most spreadsheets created by Excel. That said, few Word or Excel documents can be characterized as large and complex.
Those who must deal with large and complex documents, whether from Word or Excel, will almost certainly be better served by working with Word or Excel. That's considerably better than Apache Open Office Calc, which appeared to be loading the sheet, but then crashed after churning for 15 minutes. Attempting to load this workbook into Quattro Pro caused the application to crash immediately. I have a large and complex Excel workbook with nearly a dozen individual Worksheets, all of which are full of formulas that modify data within individual sheets and across multiple sheets. Generally speaking, Quattro Pro will open Excel spreadsheets with ease, but there are exceptions. In case you've ever wondered about the name, "quattro" is the Italian word for 4 and Borland's implication was that Quattro was one better than Lotus 1-2-3. So let's fast-forward to today's Quattro Pro. "What’s past is prologue" William Shakespeare in The Tempest. They form the basis of the WordPerfect Office Suite. Eventually, all of these applications came to be owned by the Corel Corporation in Ottawa. Novell acquired Quattro, Paradox, and WordPerfect but wasn't able to market any of them successfully. Although Excel has largely buttoned up the spreadsheet market, the current version of Quattro Pro remains in Corel's WordPerfect Office Suite. Just as WordPerfect was pushed aside by Microsoft Word, so were other spreadsheet programs losers in the marketplace to Excel. In 1996, Microsoft reached 95% penetration of the market for business applications but market mastery doesn't mean that the products are better than those of their competitors.
The release of Windows 95 brought new versions of Word and Excel and, within a few months, Novell decided to sell their applications. Lotus could not claim ownership to the operational characteristics.Ī district court ruled for Lotus, an appellate court ruled in Borland's favor, and the Supreme Court was split 4-4 (one justice recused himself).Īs a result, the appellate court ruling held as a victory for Borland, but by the time the case was resolved, Borland no longer owned Quattro Pro. The company had included Lotus 1-2-3 menus as an alternative interface to allow macros designed to work on the Lotus product to run in Quattro.īorland used the automobile argument: Most cars operate in similar manners even if they are not exactly the same. Lotus claimed that Quattro could not copy Lotus 1-2-3 menus. Borland had copied the menu structure of Lotus 1-2-3, but the underlying program was new. it worked far better than Lotus 1-2-3, so naturally Lotus sued. Then Borland created a Lotus 1-2-3 clone called Quattro. It was my favorite application for writing small DOS-based utility programs. Lotus 1-2-3 "Knock-Off" Thrives Decades LaterĪ company named Borland developed Turbo Pascal, a programming language, in 1983.
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