The fact that Fujitsu looks to have come out of the arbitration proceedings with IBM rather better than the complainant, Adam Osborne has called on Lotus Development Corp to take its look- and-feel copyright infringement suit against Osborne’s Paperback Software to arbitration. Osborne says that sales of the VP- Planner 1-me-2 spreadsheet disastr-ous following the suit filed by Lotus. If Mr Manzi wants to resolve this case, then I challenge him to take the IBM-led way and go to arbitration, he told Newsbytes. Osborne also has a new VP Planner Plus with a revised interface not as similar to 1-2-3. It still runs and writes to 1-2-3 2.0 files, but it does not support the AboveBoard memory, matrix arithmetic, or several other 1-2-3 features – and is $180 against $100 for VP-Planner.
