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Originally Posted by fjtorres
WordPerfect wasn't the only outfit that died trying to stick it to Gates. Lotus was another though they had an excuse early on...
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I think Lotus and WordPerfect were just trying to survive, not trying to "stick it" to Gates. Lotus had already damaged their business (and Borland's also) when they initiated a drawn out lawsuit against Borland because Borland's Quattro Pro looked and worked too much like Lotus 1-2-3. Soon after the court case ended, Borland sold Quattro Pro to Novell, who collected it into its WordPerfect suite (along with the Paradox database that Borland had bought earlier). Borland retained dBase, and its programming applications. At one point (earlier) Borland and WordPerfect worked jointly to form the same an earlier version of the office suite, as Novell later formed, which was called Borland Office for Windows (not a huge success). When Corel bought WordPerfect and Quattro Pro from Novell they also bought Paradox from Borland (although Borland retained certain rights to Paradox).
(Just realized I was rambling... sorry.)