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Old 7th May 2009
mwatkins mwatkins is offline
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Historical tangent: I was referring to WordPerfect, the company, which, in its heyday, was a big deal. But they failed to properly recognize the thread Microsoft posed, dismissing the early DOS-based MS Word (which was pretty bad) as being no threat to them. They lived in denial through Windows 3, vast improvements in MS Word, and by the 90's WordPerfect were losing one of their core user bases - the legal community - in increasing numbers. When Corel bought the assets that was the effective end, in my view.

At the time I was doing a lot of integration work with MS Office and other products, building document management systems for legal and government sectors. We saw a precipitous drop in Word Perfect installations during that time... actually I don't believe we saw any new sites adopt WP but we saw, and helped, many move from WP to MS Word.

Back on thread: good programmers are not enough to churn out great products.
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