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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	"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."
	"Reputable, reliable, feature rich product/brand. Gave me the ability to reduce my development time. Excellent visual interface - my customers love the end product. Easy to use and work with."
	"We were looking for a grid control that was similar to MS Excel in terms of functionalities and look-and-feel, and FarPoint Spread was one of the tops on our list."
	"We had a specific requirement from our customers to provide spreadsheet-like functionality and after trying some other products and seeing an in-person demo here, we determined that this was the correct product for us. Other factors were the ability to create custom fields and complex functions within the control."
	"It was the most full-featured grid available that we could find. We used FarPoint Spread COM version 6 in place of the native object in Visual FoxPro and then continued with the .NET products as we migrated our applications to .NET. Specifically, the ability to have different objects in different rows of the same column was the initial reason for purchasing. Being able to vary the cell type and properties on a cell by cell basis programmatically is also at the top of the list. Basically, having the functionality of a grid but the ability to make it look otherwise is important to us."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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 used it for the last 10 years. It was one of the first spreadsheet components and still one of the best."

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