Let us recall that Novell spent lots of money, billions if I remember correctly, to acquire WordPerfect, which at the time was the most used word-processing program. Novell let it languish, let go most of its staff, and sold it to Corel when its market share was in single digits. We have Novell to thank, in part, for MS-Office becoming so dominant.
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Let us recall that Novell spent lots of money, billions if I remember correctly, to acquire WordPerfect, which at the time was the most used word-processing program. Novell let it languish, let go most of its staff, and sold it to Corel when its market share was in single digits. We have Novell to thank, in part, for MS-Office becoming so dominant.