Of spandex and software.

Michael Cowpland is recreating the software package WordPerfect to challenge Microsoft in its most profitable business, the market for office “suites”—usually a word-processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphics program that work together. This market is currently dominated by Microsoft's Office p...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 341; pp. 74 - 75
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited October 12 1996
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Sumario:Michael Cowpland is recreating the software package WordPerfect to challenge Microsoft in its most profitable business, the market for office “suites”—usually a word-processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphics program that work together. This market is currently dominated by Microsoft's Office package. Cowpland thinks that he can do better because of two innovations. The first involves launching a new version of WordPerfect using all of the hard-sell marketing tactics of Corel, Cowpland's company. Cowpland's boldest move, however, is a technical one. He is working extremely hard on a version of the WordPerfect suite in Java, the Internet's exciting new programing language. The advantage of Java is that it can run on all types of computer.