Palo Alto, California-based Objective Software will demonstrate at next month’s Macworld Expo in Boston the Macintosh version of its SpreadBase program. This combines the data processing engine of a database with the viewing capacity of a spreadsheet, enabling users to organise and rearrange data without having to re-key or reshuffle spreadsheet contents. The $700 SpreadBase will ship this autumn. Although Objective Software sees the program more as a spreadsheet complement than as a standalone application, SpreadBase does provide full formulaic functionality. The program enables users to import data from spreadsheetprograms and build multiple sheet-charts with two-way linking. In addition to matrix-style charting, SpreadBase provides six styles of data graphing.
