That would be Infocom Cornerstone. The point was that since Infocom had experience in getting their games to run on many micro platforms, that could leverage that technology into making business products that also ran identically on many platforms. CS was not an internal tool--it was always intended as a product.
Unfortunately, they underestimated the knowledge of *business apps* that would be necessary to make this work, and the extra costs of expanding the company for this development eventually overwhelmed them. Today we know that the technology for a single development platform that is itself retargeted to host systems can be a product in and of itself. That might have been a way for Infocom to have avoided such a deep commitment to the business environment, although even that road has its share of wrecks.
CNET seems to have a comprehensive list of reviews.
In addition to the product lines mentioned by the poster, I would like to hear user stories of the Samsung SPH-I300.
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Mod parent up. This is exactly what I was going to link to.
Point one: rewriting from scratch can be a strategic disaster.
Point two: rectifying a "flawed" code base can be done within the framework of good software engineering practice, and is a very marketable skill besides.
That would be Infocom Cornerstone. The point was that since Infocom had experience in getting their games to run on many micro platforms, that could leverage that technology into making business products that also ran identically on many platforms. CS was not an internal tool--it was always intended as a product.
Unfortunately, they underestimated the knowledge of *business apps* that would be necessary to make this work, and the extra costs of expanding the company for this development eventually overwhelmed them. Today we know that the technology for a single development platform that is itself retargeted to host systems can be a product in and of itself. That might have been a way for Infocom to have avoided such a deep commitment to the business environment, although even that road has its share of wrecks.
There are plenty of mini rules sets available on the web. My favorite is Evil Stevie's Pirate Game.
CNET seems to have a comprehensive list of reviews. In addition to the product lines mentioned by the poster, I would like to hear user stories of the Samsung SPH-I300.
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Posted without attribution again, as usual. Sigh.
DirecTV has already done this.