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...anyone who has used a desktop publishing (DTP) program, as typesetting software is customarily called, knows how difficult it is to write from it; for that you'll need a word processor like WordPerfect and Microsoft Word...
Referring to the U.S. government as a "quill pen in the age of WordPerfect," Vice President Al Gore unveiled a plan with more than 800 recommendations on how to restructure it -- and theoretically save $108 billion over the next five years. Gore appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to soft-sell the scheme, at one point ridiculing the arthritic federal bureaucracy by strapping on safety goggles to smash a government-approved ashtray in the officially sanctioned...
...very late in catching the two biggest technology waves: the Macintosh . . . and Windows. Borland International ((producer of database programs)) is too distracted with its bad merger with Ashton-Tate. Philippe Kahn ((Borland CEO)) is good at playing the saxophone and sailing, but he's not good at making money. WordPerfect ((developer of word-processing software)) is truly a one-product company . . . Our most successful software is for the ((Apple Computer)) Macintosh. We have a much higher market share on the Mac than anywhere else. How does Apple help us? Well, they sue us in court . . . In the future, maybe...
Control over WordPerfect and Windows is delegated to small groups of programmers in Orem, Utah, and Redmond, Washington, respectively. They may or may not fix my problem, depending on everything from whim to budget constraints...
...results, excellent software at an excellent price, speak for themselves. Looking at commercial software, it seems foolish for Lotus, Microsoft, and WordPerfect to continually reinvent the same wheel. And couldn't the fortunes spent on marketing, advertising, and pretty boxes go elsewhere...