FullWrite was an outstanding product, while Full Impact had the bad luck of being timed just after a major new release of Microsoft Excel and the release of Informix Wingz.

Wingz was a spreadsheet program sold by Informix in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Informix, used to selling a single relational database package for thousands of dollars per site, apparently never really understood the idea of mass marketing shrinkware and was unable to break the monopoly held by Microsoft Excel even though Wingz was regarded as " clearly the spreadsheet of the future " by one reviewer.

Informix was looking to break into the desktop software market with products that could link to their back-end databases, and Wingz seemed like a good fit.

The release was built up by extensive promotion on the part of Informix, including giving away a then-unprecedented array of " convention swag ," including high quality Wingz " letter jackets.

The most obvious feature, and the easiest to " checkbox review ", was the size of the spreadsheets Wingz could process.

Excel's maximum size was 256 columns by 16384 rows, while Wingz could handle spreadsheets up to 32768 in both directions.

A less-obvious feature was that Wingz allowed simple in-cell editing, whereas contemporary versions of Excel forced you to use a separate data-entry bar.

Another clear difference between Wingz and Excel was Wingz ' powerful graphing system, once regarded as the most powerful available in any spreadsheet.

It was only a short period of time before a Wingz 1. 1 release fixed many of these issues, but it was long enough that the product was never able to regain its momentum.

Soon it was being marketed primarily as a data access tool, and eventually the name Wingz was dropped and the product became HyperScript Tools.

At some unknown point Wingz was bought by a company in San Jose, CA called PDF Solutions which now uses Wingz as a private base for their DataPOWER Semiconductor yield management software packages.

Only shortly after Full Impact was released, Informix Wingz shipped, and was heavily marketed -- including sending their frontman, Leonard Nimoy, around to various Macintosh-related trade shows.

Joe Erickson, the lead developer of the Smart Spreadsheet, Wingz, Formula One VBX, Formula One ActiveX, Formula One for Java and SpreadsheetGear for. NET, left shortly after that.

Many were discontinued prior to the acquisition by IBM, including Wingz an early spreadsheet.

Microsoft responded to the release of Wingz, and others such as Ashton-Tate's Full Impact and the Mac version of Lotus 1-2-3 that came out about the same time, by starting an extensive upgrade to Excel.

Wingz ' graphing system allowed the resulting graphs to be placed directly in the spreadsheets.

Additionally Wingz made it easy to make the graphs and modify them, allowing you to see your changes in real-time directly in the spreadsheet where the changes were being made.

They were soon showing it around claiming it would have all the features of Wingz — in-sheet graphics, large spreadsheets, etc.

It also seemed that Informix never really understood how to market the product, and it is likely ' Not Invented Here ' played a major part in the problems as well — the purchase of Wingz and Smartware prompted Roger Sippl, one of the founders of Informix, to leave the company.

Claris, Apple Computer's onetime software arm, licensed Wingz in the early 1990s after Informix lost interest in the Mac market.

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