The Quattro Pro spreadsheet was launched in 1989 with, at the time, a notable improvement and charting capabilities.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

* Quattro Pro X6, spreadsheet (. qpw-files )

Lotus sued Paperback Software and Mosaic for copyright infringement, false and misleading advertising, and unfair competition over their low-cost clones of 1-2-3, VP Planner and Twin, and sued Borland over its Quattro spreadsheet.

Quattro Pro is a spreadsheet program developed by Borland and now sold by Corel, most often as part of Corel's WordPerfect Office suite.

Quattro Pro avoided the 65, 536 row by 256 column spreadsheet limitations inherent to pre-2007 versions of Microsoft Excel by allowing a maximum worksheet size of one million rows by 18, 276 columns.

The common file extension of Quattro Pro spreadsheet file is. qpw.

The original Borland Quattro electronic spreadsheet was a DOS program written in assembly language and Turbo C principally by Adam Bosworth, Lajos Frank, and Chuck Batterman.

Some have claimed that Quattro Pro was the first to use the tabbed notebook metaphor-but another spreadsheet " BoeingCalc " used tabs to multiple sheets, and allowed three dimensional references before Quattro Pro was on the market.

First, it was the first Windows spreadsheet with multiple pages with cells that could be linked together seamlessly, a feature from Quattro Pro which QPW extended.

Sheets also has the ability to import several spreadsheet formats, including XLS ( Microsoft Excel ), Applix Spreadsheet, Quattro Pro, CSV, dBase, Gnumeric, SXC ( OpenOffice. org XML ), Kexi and TXT.

Taking a book out of Borland's low price Quattro Pro spreadsheet debut against Microsoft Excel,

Unfortunately, Borland had their own spreadsheet battling with Excel on Windows, Quattro Pro, and they immediately ended sales of Full Impact.

Borland purchased the DataPivot technology in 1992 and implemented it in their own spreadsheet application Quattro Pro.

Quattro Pro began as a DOS program ( like Lotus 1-2-3 ) but with the growing popularity of Windows from Microsoft, a Windows version of Quattro needed to be written.

In 1973 Benelli was acquired by Argentinian industrialist Alejandro de Tomaso together with its competitor Moto Guzzi which lead to the development of new models featuring multi-cylinder engines, such as the " 350 Quattro " and the " 500 Quattro ", and of the incredible 750 Sei powered by a huge six-cylinder in-line engine, which put the firm briefly ahead of the Japanese competition.

Under Noorda's watch, Novell acquired several companies and products with the goal of countering Microsoft's rapid spread into new markets, including Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and Borland's Quattro Pro.

It included Corel WordPerfect 8, Corel Quattro Pro 8, Corel Presentations 8, CorelCENTRAL 8 with Netscape Communicator, Corel Paradox 8, Corel Time Line Corel WEB. SiteBuilder 8, Deluxe 2 CD, 1998 Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia from Grolier Inc., Envoy 7 Viewer / Printer Driver, 10, 000 clipart images, 1000 fonts, more than 200 photos.

It includes It includes WordPerfect 9, Quattro Pro 9, Corel Presentations 9, CorelCENTRAL 9, Paradox 9, Trellix 9, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Standard 4. 0-WP, HotDocs 5. 1, DEAL PROOF SE, WestCiteLink 2. 2, Amicus Attorney IV Organizer Edition, NexLaw 9, Lexicon from BLACK ’ s Law Dictionary ( 6th Ed ), The Pleading Expert.

There also was ( circa 1995 ) the assertion by one Lotus cc: Mail employee that " Quattro Pro " was taken from the Italian word " quattro ", or number four, thus asserting that it was one better than Lotus 1-2-3.

Quattro Pro finished final quality assurance testing and was sent to manufacturing from those computers running on the tennis courts in the ( fortunately ) sunny and dry autumn weather.

There was almost nothing from the DOS code that could be moved to the Windows project so the Quattro Pro for Windows ( QPW ) was written from scratch.

In an odd set of events, Novell purchased both WordPerfect corporation and purchased the Quattro Pro code base and team of engineers from Borland.

In 1994, Novell bought WordPerfect, as well as the Quattro Pro from Borland.

Char related apparel and accessories span a wide range, from the ubiquitous Quattro sunglasses to Char lighters, neckties, wristbands, caps, wallets and a wide range of t-shirts.

Corinthian capital, from Isaac Ware's edition of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura | Four books … ( London 1738.

Fontana's nephew Carlo Maderno was an architect to Pope Paul V. San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, the gallery of the Palazzo Spada and the Filippini monastery were built by Francesco Borromini, and Carlo Fontana was responsible for the facade of San Marcello al Corso and the Montecitorio Palace ; Baldassare Longhena, from Maroggia, built the church of Santa Maria della Salute, the Rezzonico and the Widmann palaces ; all in Venice.

File: Villa Pisani. jpg | Villa Pisani in Bagnolo of Lonigo, from I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura

A villa with a superimposed portico, from Book IV of Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura, in a modestly priced English translation published in London, 1736.

" True Palladianism " in Villa Godi by Palladio from the Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura.

In 1749 Peter Harrison adopted the design of his Redwood Library in Newport, Rhode Island, more directly from Palladio's Quattro Libri, while his Brick Market, also in Newport, of a decade later is also Palladian in conception.

It is the only existing work of colonial academic architecture that was principally designed from a plate in Andrea Palladio ’ s Quattro Libri. The house was designed by the architect William Buckland in 1773 – 74 for wealthy farmer Matthias Hammond of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

The B2 platform proved to be both quite versatile and quite profitable ; many components were shared to or borrowed from the Audi Coupé, Audi Quattro and Audi Sport Quattro, which in the process helped to cement the company into the public eye after their quattro permanent four-wheel drive system proved useful in various forms of racing.

From 1989 to 1991 the 90 also offered the first 20-valve engine from Audi since the turbocharged engine used in the Audi Sport Quattro.

It features important sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers ( 1651 ) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought here in pieces from the Circus of Maxentius the church of Sant ' Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini, Girolamo Rainaldi, Carlo Rainaldi and others ; and the aforementioned Pamphili palace, also by Girolamo Rainaldi, that accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.

The 1982 season saw the series dominated by the four-wheel-drive Audi Quattro, and with Group B regulations coming up, Talbot withdrew from the WRC.

In October 1994, Borland sold Quattro Pro and Paradox to Novell for $ 140 million in cash, repositioning the company on its core software development tools and the Interbase database engine and shifting toward client-server scenarios in corporate applications.

Incidentally, competitor Borland code-named their Quattro Pro software " Buddha ", as the software was meant to " assume the Lotus position " and take over Lotus 1-2-3's market.

Borland changed the name to Quattro Pro for its 1990 release.

The main designers and programmers of Surpass were also hired by Borland to turn Surpass into Quattro Pro: Bob Warfield, Dave Anderson, Weikuo Liaw, Bob Richardson and Tod Landis.

Quattro Pro was the subject of a major lawsuit by Lotus against Borland.

By the time the case was resolved, Borland no longer owned Quattro Pro.

* WordPerfect & Quattro Pro ( Borland ) — 1994

When Borland eventually sold its Quattro Pro and Paradox products to Novell, where they would be joined with Word Perfect in an attempt to match Microsoft Office, Borland was left with InterBase, which Esber had purchased in the late 1980s and had its origins as a derivative of the RDB database work at DEC. Borland's ongoing strategy was to refocus its development tools on the corporate market with client – server applications, so Interbase fitted in as a low-end tool and a good generic SQL database for prototyping.

Borland renamed it Quattro Pro.

It was included in the sale of Borland products to WordPerfect, which were in turn resold as WordPerfect got into financial products, and at the current time of writing Paradox for Windows, WordPerfect and Quattro Pro for Windows are all owned by Corel and sold as part of their office suite.