Hi all,
I hope the holidays have been good to everyone. :D I thought I'd share my experience in purchasing a license for Mesa, the spreadsheet package for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP over the holidays from the fine folks @
http://www.plsys.co.uk/ Mesa was one of a few pieces of software that I had bought over the years off Ebay for my NeXT system that was supposed to come w/ the license & actually didn't. So, I inquired about purchasing a new license on Friday night & had a quick response on Saturday morning. You can still buy a license for Mesa 1.5/2.0 for the same price as a Mac OSX version for $34. 8) So, I quickly purchased a license. I was trying to license a 2.0 version of the software. Liz, my contact w/ P&L Software offered a license for me to try before even purchasing the software! Of course, I had already purchased a license & quickly let her know that I had. Anyway, long story short, the license strings for 1.5 & 2.0 are supposed to be the same, but I couldn't get a single user license to work w/ 2.0. Liz was very quick to respond several times & in the end, provided me w/ a 5 user floating license that worked w/ no problems. Later Saturday night, I had some free time & ended up loading up 1.5B of Mesa and the original licenses she provided worked fine. We couldn't figure out why the single user licenses didn't work, but in the end I was happy in getting it to work and I have to give P&L Software an A++ in customer service! It's nice to know you can still purchase some software for our systems. If you don't have a copy of Mesa & can use a nice standard SpreadSheet package for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, I highly recommend Mesa. :D Oh BTW, if you're curious, yes, I already have ParaSheet, Quantrix, Wingz, Questor & Lotus Improv. Mesa was one of the higher recommended SpreadSheet packages over the years. So I wanted to add it to my collection. :wink: