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Microsoft Corp. is set to announce this week Open EIS Pak, a toolkit for building Excel-based corporation information systems. The Pak will ship for $99 next month.
The product uses dialog boxes to lead users through application development and then generates Excel macro code to create the application. Other Microsoft applications, such as Visual Basic, can be used with Open EIS Pak to build corporate information systems.
Open EIS Pak is loosely based on an earlier tool set from Lex Software Systems Inc. called AppGen/XL. Microsoft sub-contracted the Open EIS Pak work to AppGen creator Tom Chester.
Many of Open EIS Pak's largest fans are still using the …