Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Palm is holding its own.  Or maybe better than.
Wordstar shot themselves in the foot, as far as I can tell.
I used it until Win 3.1, and their version of a GUI 
word processor was junk.  I went to WP 5.1 as soon as 
I could, and I wish we could have that version today. Or 5.2.
I still have the disks, but it can't deal with MSWord.  And
the latest Corel is not nearly as friendly, and you can no longer
get free telephone help.  I don't think Be was ever a contender,
even tho it was interesting.  DeLorme has very good map software,
and I doubt that MS is up to it.  It also supports GPS.  Quarterdeck 
is obsolete.  I don't think MS put them under, it just wasn't 
necessary anymore. AFAIK, RealAudio is still around.  I don't
know how they make any money on free downloads, tho. 

At 22:50 11/13/2001 -0600, Timothy R.Butler wrote:
>
>> That's why 3rd
>> party vendors (e.g. Symantec, Powerquest, etc.) are not worried
>> that MS keeps adding features to Windows.  The default
>
>  If those guys don't fear Microsoft, then they get what they deserve. 
>However, first they should talk to Novell, Corel, Lotus, Netscape, Sun, 
>Apple, Intuit, Palm, Be, Oracle, Digital Research, Quarterdeck, Geo, Real, 
>Roxio, WordStar, and many more. Also should I mention those that gave up and 
>sold out to Microsoft? AutoMap, Fox Systems (I think that was the name), 
>Visio... All of these companies are either currently in nasty wars with, or 
>have lost such wars with Microsoft (even if their products were better).  
>
>  And even more importantly, most of them lost by resting on the laurels 
>while Microsoft slowly drained their marketshare...
>