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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	"In 1999 a friend of mine recommended me to use FarPoint Spread spreadsheet control, which I did. I was very pleased with the result and how easy it was to work with. I've been using the product since then. For me it's just a natural choice."
	"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."
	"We used it for the last 10 years. It was one of the first spreadsheet components and still one of the best."
	"I have used your product (FarPoint Spread) since VB 3,4,5,6 - long ago, so it was a natural progression. Second, I worked with other spreadsheets, Infragistics, SyncFusion, and Microsofts Grid in ASP pages and there were performance issues, especially for more sophisticate tasks."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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 needed a flexible grid control which could display icons and had good format control. We didn't use much spreadsheet-like functionality initially, but we do use it more and more now."
	"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."
	"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."

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