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Corporately we used WordPerfect for years. One major advantage was it didn't open a macro when the document was opened. We used to hear all sorts of tales of virus hits with Microsoft Word.
But the world moves on. Novell only wanted to talk to us about changing our LAN operating system to Novell and that wasn't going to happen. For most businesses they are interested in exchanging documents with other businesses. Word has an advantage in the business world called Microsoft SQL server. Visual basic can use them both and automate a lot of tasks. So if you're standardising you go with the most flexible and the one that most companies use. Also you need to take into account disabled people such as the blind and Word has a lot more niche products to assist them.
Wordperfect still has a niche, but it is growing smaller. Most communication these days is via email or social media and you don't need a word processing program for either.
One thing I did like about the old wordperfect was the ability to search for a document on the file system. Unfortunately this is now part of the professional version which is too expensive to use at home.
I have both Libreoffice and Wordperfect X9 on my machine at the moment and to be honest I often find myself using Libreoffice for preference.
John
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