The graphical Wingz spreadsheet and its attached HyperScript analytical development environment was meant to be the killer application for Apple’s ill-fated A/UX Unix implementation way back in 1987. Wingz also ran under MacOS, but authors Informix Software were only marginally wiser choosing their next major port, to the doomed Next Inc box. They eventually gave up on the software, in January 1995, selling it to the London-based Investment Intelligence Systems Group (CI No 2,611). Now IISG has a new release, version 2.1, for the Macintosh – the first upgrade for Macintosh users for around half a decade. These customers have waited a long time for a new release of Wingz, said IISG vice president Stefan Zauchenberger, and IISG intends to continue to develop high quality analytical tools for the Macintosh. Since it took on Wingz, IISG has released versions for Sun, HP, IBM and Silicon Graphics Unix systems, along with a 16-bit Windows version. It anticipates an NT/Windows 95 implementation during the fall of this year.
