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Charting development toolkits

Hello all,
I'm looking for charting toolkits and libraries, and
hoping for a tip.
I'm working with a development team to create some
business intelligence, reporting and analysis software.
In addition to standard line and bar charts, the
application needs to do some treemap-type charts. (See:
www.smartmoney.com/marketmap)
The team has discovered this:
http://www.infragistics.com/products/charting.asp?sec=2

Does anyone know of any alternatives?

Subject: Services and Interaction Design

Fred wrote:
> For example, ADP
> provides many software products, but rather than focusing on their products,
> they focus on their services and let the products support those services.
What is the specific product from ADP that is the focus of your example?

When I read this the first thing I thought of was online support services
for web services (like hotmail). Try to get an answer to a support issue.
<ehehe> Every question is put into a system of keyword auto responses.

Interaction Design and other fields

Regarding whether IxD is limited to systems which have a software
component. I disagree, I mean people do interact with objects/systems in
the real world which don't have any software components, I think any
system that interacts with people can be worked upon/improved. It's true
the field of Interaction Design evolved out of the need to improve
software systems, but look at something like the telephone. Most
telephones now have software (somewhere down the line), we can apply
interaction design to telephone systems at various levels.

ADMIN: Preparing for the Holidays (set to vacation mode)

Hi everyone,

As the holiday season in the Judeo-Christian world is fast approaching I
realize that many people will be going on wonderful vacations between now
through the new year.

Some people who are using their business addresses for their subscription to
this list, will need to create an auto-responder notifying everyone who
sends a message to them that they are out, and who to contact in their
absense.