AppleWorks were useless. Nobody could seriously use them for anything other than 'playing around' (my opinion). FileMaker is a serious Database Application and worth every penny and Excel has always been the ultimate spreadsheet app. Why would Apple continue to develop these and ultimately have to raise the price on AppleWorks? From what I've seen (I watched the Quicktime starring Steve Jobs) iWorks is super cool at what it does and is still only $79.00. For all of you who depended on the AppleWorks spreadsheet and database, I guess you're just going to have to stick with AppleWorks 6 or (God forbid) spend a few dollars and invest in Excel and Filemaker.
Tim
Sometimes simplicity is a virtue. I once set up a man with a system for his business using the database in Appleworks. He used it for years and loved it because it was fast and easy. Basically he had numerous fields for his clients' name, phone numbers, the equipment they had, etc. plus a huge notes field at the bottom where he put information on his activities for the company.
I personally used an Appleworks spreadsheet last night to figure out a client's sales tax returns. It worked perfectly. True, Excel has advantages, but I always recommend that people start off with Appleworks and graduate to other programs as needed.
Recently another client had an old desktop publishing program that was no longer compatible with her upgraded Mac OS, so we reproduced her calendar of events using an Appleworks template that did a great job. Interestingly, it set up the calendar in a spreadsheet with text overlays. Once again, it works perfectly and is fully compatible with the OS.
Personally I would like to see Appleworks continued and if iWorks is to be the new Appleworks, I would like the database and spreadsheet included. I am not an Appleworks expert, but I find that multi-use software like Appleworks can sometimes accomplish things that single-use tools can't. For example, one cool thing that I was able to do with Microsoft Works on the Mac (years ago) was copy and paste whole documents between the spreadsheet and the database. That turned out to be very useful in some situations.
I am also a fan of Panorama, and if it implemented more robust relational features, I would probably use it more than Filemaker.
Doug Hogg MacHelpLA.com
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