News

On 27 November 2008, the price of Resolver One will go up to $399.  Until then, you still have a chance to buy it at $199; if you’d like to evaluate the new features and see if it’s worth buying the commercial version, now’s the time to start!

We are pleased to announce the release of Resolver One, version 1.3.  Once again, we’ve got a mixture of cool new features and usability enhancements.

Some of the highlights:

• The Web server is now included!  You can now share your  spreadsheets with other people from any version of  Resolver One.
• Column- and row-level formulae, using headers.  So, for example, you can say that column A is “quantity”, column B is “price”, and then specify a column-level formula  for column C to make it quantity times price.  No more duplicated formulae!
• A 30% improvement in startup time.
• An option to trigger a recalculation, reloading imports - Shift-F9.  This is very useful when you’re developing and want to be able to change the Python scripts you depend on.
• Handling of number formatting (thousand separators,  currency units, etc) when pasting.
• New ContentCells property for Row and Column objects,  mirroring ContentRows/ContentCols on worksheet.
• Upgrade to IronPython 1.1.2.
• And, of course, many other bugfixes and minor usability tweaks.

We’ve put together a short screencast outlining some of the changes, and there is also a full list of every change in this release.  As always, you can download the software from our downloads page; if you have already bought the software, you can log in to download the unrestricted version.

Don’t forget, we have forums to discuss and ask questions about Resolver One, and there is detailed documentation too.

For version 1.3 of Resolver One, we’re adding a lot of enhancements, but the big one is that the Web server is now included!  We will be raising the price for the commercial version to $399, but if you buy version 1.2 now for $199, you will get a free upgrade to 1.3 - saving you $699 on the old price.

So if you’ve been evaluating Resolver One and are thinking of buying in the future, now’s the time to do it  :-)

(If you’ve already bought Resolver One, don’t worry - you will get a free upgrade to 1.3, complete with the Web server, as soon it is released.)

If you would like to check out v1.3 before it is released, it’s now ready for beta testing, and we’d love to hear from you: just drop us a line at beta@resolversystems.com.

We’ve posted a new screencast, based on Giles Thomas’ talk at PyCon UK 2008; it explains how being able to put Python objects in the Resolver One helps you write better spreadsheets.  Let us know what you think in the comments!

We’ve changed the company that manages our payment processing.   The company who used to handle this for us were unable to take orders from people who used free web-based email providers like Google Mail, and also did not do a terribly good job of letting us know when there were problems with someone’s order; our apologies to everyone who had problems with them!

The new provider, Avangate, seems much better (so far) - most importantly, they copy us in on every communication with our customers, so we can track things to make sure everyone’s happy.  So if you previously tried to purchase an unrestricted license for Resolver One and couldn’t, please do give it another go!