Business users will have more to choose from than different types of graphs and charts for their documents, as three new charting packages for NEXTSTEP hit the market.
Blacksmith has shipped CHaRTSMITH 1.0, a "presentation-quality charting and graphing package," according to the company, with ease-of-use features such as templates and drag-and-drop capabilities. The package also supports Services and Object Linking, and sells for $495, with an educational price of $99.
"What we liked most was the paste-and-link feature. The ability to constantly update is critical to us," said Henry Krempel, an independent consultant who is designing and implementing applications for financial trader Nicholas Appelgate.
Watershed Technologies in October announced GraphRight 1.1, which also features Object Linking to and from its "presentation graphing application," the company said. The $399 package ($199 educational) also comes with a distributed-object API, which allows developers to build data-visualization capabilities into their applications.
And Xanthus International in October announced the beta release of its Graphity 1.0 "business-graphics application," according to the company. It can be found on the archive sics.se:/pub/next/beta_fat and will run in demo mode for ten minutes.
BLaCKSMITH: 703/524-6147; chartsmith@blcksmth.com.
Watershed: 508/460-9612; graphright@ watershed.com.
Xanthus: 46/8/ 635-3000; xanthus@xanthus.se.