Re: Javelin? financial outliner

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Posted by PVinc
2002-01-19 16:53:26

I’ve been a staunch Javelin user since it’s initial release in 1985. It continues to be intuitively superior to Excel (which I seldom use as a business modeling tool). Underlying the architecture is a relational database. Consequently, multiple views of the data can be displayed by populating the desired layout with the names of the data (handled as time-series variables). Javelin supports such views as: Spreadsheet, Table, Chart, Diagram (entity-relationship type), and various Graphs (multi-line, scatter-point, X/Y, stacked, bar, and hi-lo-close-volume). Equations are formulated in plain English. And so on ...

In my view the developers were a decade ahead of the times. As to what happened to Javelin, Tara L Burgess, M.S.L.S. states in her 2/98 user guide on “World Telecommunication Indicators” (http://www.ils.unc.edu/~burgt/awp.htm) that:

Javelin ... was “acquired by Information Resources, Inc.” When I received the Javelin Plus 3.5 update from IRI I was told they wouldn’t be providing any further updates. (I was hoping they’d come introduce a windows version or integrate it with their Express product.) According to Tara, “The technology, along with IRI’s Express software, was acquired by Oracle in 1995.” She cites as a source: http://www.zdnet.com.au/wsources/filters/j/javelinplus.html

-I. Newton

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