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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	"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."
	"We always look for the product with the most prominent position in the marketplace. We have no time for tools that will not be around in the future. The company backing is important, and obviously the feature set was very good."
	"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."
	"We used it for the last 10 years. It was one of the first spreadsheet components and still one of the best."
	"My company at the time used FarPoint Spread ActiveX for VB from version 3.0 onwards. It proved to be most useful and stable control as compared with any other used from that time. In fact, that is the only custom control (not coming from microsoft) we are still using. As part of the upgrade process and migration towards full Web applications, using FarPoint Spread further on proves to be the cheapest solution and it gives the end-user a much better user experience compared with any other control."
	"I first came across FarPoint Spread about 6 years ago when I was looking for a versatile grid program and felt that FarPoint Spread was the answer. I have been with FarPoint Spread ever since."
	"To get a full featured grid with spreadsheet-like characteristics. The main factor was the positive review your products received over your competitors."
	"Initially, we purchased FarPoint Spread when we were automating spreadsheets that were being manually produced by our Accounting Department. FarPoint Spread allowed us to easily produce a finished product with the same look and feel as existing reports. Since our initial successes we've had abundant requests from other departments."
	"We have worked with FarPoint Spread since its 16-bit version early in the 1990's. (We were using the VBX version with MS VB3.) Since then, we have evolved the product along with it and we always have been very happy with it."
	"We had previously used the OCX version of FarPoint Spread (v3.1) and when moving to .NET it was an obvious candidate. The major advantages of this Spread were the multiple column and row headers, the multiple sheets and the ability to span/merge cells especially in the header cells."

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