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 bought FarPoint Spread for use in our evaluation of grid products for use in a project. The deciding factors were the wealth of features that FarPoint Spread offered over the compitition, for example the zooming feature."
	"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."
	"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."
	"We had utilized the 32-bit version of FarPoint Spread for years in our development. We felt that utilizing a "known" quality tool in our move to the .NET environment would be an added bonus."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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."
	"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."

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