Like Commodore's earlier Magic Desk software, it used a literal desktop metaphor with the interface consisting of an onscreen graphic of a desktop with icons representing associated business tools: a typewriter represented the word processor component (JaneWrite), a filing cabinet for the database (JaneList), a calculator for the spreadsheet (JaneCalc) and so on.
Like most of the other examples of integrated software for home computers, Jane's components were criticized for being slow and limited.
Arktronics was a software development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, founded by Howard Marks and Bobby Kotick.
Jane was originally intended to be a package not only for the Apple and Commodore lines, but also for the Atari 8-bit family and others.
The Weiner brothers, both went on to attend the University of Michigan Integrated Pre-medical-Medical (Inteflex) Program.