Word: wordperfect
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...Schmidt has deep roots in the tech industry. He was Sun?s chief technology officer but left to join Novell as CEO in 1997. If you don?t remember Novell, you?re forgiven. They?re the guys who owned WordPerfect and, like Sun, were eventually stomped by Bill Gates?s big boots. Since joining Google as its CEO in 2001, Schmidt has presided over huge growth, and all that cash has fueled forays into Microsoft territory, with applications like desktop search and Gmail...
...roads and kick dust into the faces of the bicycle-cart drivers, their own cargo of tangled wires swaying with each turn. Atop a riverbank junk heap near the Meizhou bridge, a piece of cardboard flutters in the breeze?printed on it are keystroke instructions and the words: "WordPerfect...
...raise prices for consumers. However, this view attributes too much strength to the Office monopoly and assumes the two "baby Bills" will not work against each other. Applications software is by nature harder to monopolize than operating systems: Word documents can be read and written by Corel's WordPerfect or Sun's StarOffice, and the possibilities for new entrants in the applications field would only rise after the breakup. Alternatives to Office software are far stronger than alternatives to Windows, and could have the potential to replace Office were the operating system a neutral platform...