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Dreary Industry (was: Re: Word '97 vs. Frame 5.1.1)
Subject:Dreary Industry (was: Re: Word '97 vs. Frame 5.1.1) From:Mitch Berg <mberg -at- IS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:56:06 -0600
I swear, this'll be the last post I EVER make that's not directly
TW-related...
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> From: Wayne J. Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
>
> At 01:51 PM 3/31/97 -0700, Vic Fragnito wrote:
> >A while back, a company called AstonTate did something similar with a
> >product called DataBase 4...
> >The company is now BANKRUPT!.
> >
> Worse yet. It was acquired by Borland, which has gone through its own
> crises. They recently laid off a bunch of folks.
First Borland, now Parc-Place/Digitalk. I swear, if these companies tank,
I'll become a Luddite and start making birch furniture by hand...
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