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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

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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