Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, Unix
Type
Spreadsheet
Wingz was a spreadsheet program sold by Informix in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Originally developed for the Macintosh, it was later ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2,[1] NeXTSTEP[2] and several other commercial flavors of Unix.[3] In spite of many positive reviews, including one calling it "clearly the spreadsheet of the future", the market was rapidly entrenching Microsoft Excel.[4] Informix eventually gave up on the desktop market and reverted solely to database sales in the mid-1990s. Claris licensed and sold an extensively cleaned up version as Claris Resolve in 1991,[5] but it was far too late to market to have any effect.
^Darrow, Barbara (25 June 1990). "Windows, OS/2 Wingz Ship in One Box". InfoWorld. Vol. 12, no. 26. p. 13.
^Webster, Bruce (January 1991). "Key Software". NeXTWorld. No. Premier. pp. 59–64.
^"Wingz for Sun and Next Ship". InfoWorld. Vol. 12, no. 22. 28 May 1990. p. 40.
^Bensky, Pat (4 December 1989). "Wingz Carries Spreadsheets to New Heights". InfoWorld. Vol. 11, no. 49. pp. S12–S13.
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