SOFTWARE REVIEW
BARRY RENDER, Feature Editor
Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College


The Final Review

by Barry Render, Rollins College

Six years as Software Review Editor! Decision Line has come a long way from its newspaper format days, with much credit due to our Editor-in -Chief Roscoe Davis, and Managing Editor Hal Jacobs. When Roscoe asked me to start a new column in 1988, one dedicated to software, I was thrilled to participate. Signing on for two years turned into three, four, five and six, because working with Roscoe, Hal, and all the wonderful contributing reviewers made the task a very rewarding one.

So as Roscoe turns over the reigns to Terry Rakes, and I to the new column editor, this seems to be a good time to review the reviews. What follows is a chronological index of the software examined since 1988 and the professors who wrote those columns. Special thanks go to my top contributors, Jack Yurkiewicz (at Pace University) with six reviews, and Tom Danford (at Rollins College) with four columns to his credit.

1988
Vol. 19, No. 4
Expert System Shells
Merrill E. Warkentin

Vol. 19, No. 5
Project Management Software
Edward Wasil and Arjang Assad

1989 Vol. 20, No. 1
Eleven P/OM Educational Packages Part I
Peter Stonebreaker

Vol. 20, No. 2
Eleven P/OM Educational Packages Part II
Peter Stonebreaker

Vol. 20, No. 3
Adventures in Statistics
Robert E. Pugh

Vol. 20, No. 4
The Time Machine
Peg Young

Vol. 20, No. 5 Mathematica
Jack Yurkiewicz

1990
Vol. 21, No. 1
Micro Manager and PC-POM
Barry Render

Vol. 21, No. 2
Expert Choice
Julian W. Vincze

Vol. 21, No. 3
Resampling Stats
James W. Vaupel

Vol. 21, No. 4
Forecast Pro and Statpac Gold
Jack Yurkiewicz

Vol. 21, No. 5
Timestat and Trends II
Jack Yurkiewicz

1991
Vol. 22, No. 1
Quattro Pro for Linear Programming
David Ashley

Vol. 22, No. 2
Minitab
Robert Pugh

Vol. 22, No. 3
Statgraphics
Tom Danford

Vol. 22, No. 4
Electronic Tables
Thomas M. Gerig

Vol. 22, No. 5
Statistix 3.1 and Student SX
John Wurst

1992
Vol. 23, No. 1
Slamsystem
R.D. Jack Hammesfahr

Vol. 23, No. 2
VP-Expert
Tom Danford

Vol. 23, No. 3
Making Charlie's Chocolates
Karyn A. Corbett

Vol. 23, No. 4
PC-Statistics
J.P. Shim

Vol. 23, No. 5
S-Plus
Tom Danford

1993
Vol. 24, No. 1
Execustat and NCSS
Jack Yurkiewicz

Vol. 24, No. 2
Quattro Pro for Windows
Tom Danford

Vol. 24, No. 3
One-Write-Plus
Saeed J. Roohani

Vol. 24, No. 4
SPSS Studentware Plus
Jack Yurkiewicz