Why Your Peers, and Competitors, are Using Spread

We recently surveyed our registered users of both Spread for ASP.NET (Web Forms) and Spread Windows Forms and asked them several questions, including the following:

  Why did you buy Spread? What were the deciding factors/features for purchasing:

Following are some of their responses (listed in random order). While we planned on using them for internal review only, they were so good we thought we would share them with you. Click the Read More link to view many more comments. Thanks to all who participated in the survey!

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	"I was developing a statics tool for education that needed some basic spreadsheet capabilities, while looking round I saw your product and suggested to my customers that we take the opportunity to use this staggering component to extend the product to contain full spreadsheet capabilities and extend the products shelf-life and opportunities. At the base level it was the great support for functions within the spread and the ability to extend that capability to include additional functions necessary for teaching stats. It was also really useful to be able to extend the cell types to allow for custom representation of information."
	"To get a full featured grid with spreadsheet-like characteristics. The main factor was the positive review your products received over your competitors."
	"A vendor had begun initial development using the tool, and as we have now taken over development of the application, we have purchased our own license. We did do a short review of spreadsheet tools, but found yours provides us the flexibility for the in-house application/tools that we are developing. The built-in formulas make use of the spreadsheet a lot easier for many of our users."
	"I'm a Microsoft MVP so there isn't much I can't make the .NET DataGridView do, but I ran into a large project where the grid needed to have many Excel-like features as well as support multi-column filters, hierarchical display, and support large sets of data with better performance than DataGridView. So the net effect is writing less code and better performance. After evaluating FarPoint Spread, I was able to do some very complex things within a few days of prototyping and became convinced that it would be well worth the investment. Now that the application I am using FarPoint Spread for has flown through alpha testing, I am convinced I made the right choice."
	"I used your product in a number of VB6 projects and I stick with a winner."
	"We bought FarPoint Spread for use in our evaluation of grid products for use in a project. The deciding factors were the wealth of features that FarPoint Spread offered over the compitition, for example the zooming feature."
	"The deciding factors were easy to use, packed with features, unlimited runtime distribution, and the cost of the component was reasonable. This was back with Spread 2.0 in VB6; I have relied on it ever since."
	"Spreadsheet functions, documentation, features compared to other components, .NET native component, a lot much higher performance compared to Office Web components we used to use before."
	"We have been using your FarPoint Spread control for approximately eight years and are very comfortable with the product.The development environment is very easy to work with and the end product that is delivered to our end users ends up with a very professional look and feel."
	"FarPoint Spread for Web Forms is an excellent product. We can easily integrate any financial application using FarPoint Spread and can do the financial calculations with out any much code. We used FarPoint Spread in a Visual Basic application a long time back. This helped us in evaluating this tool."

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