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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Beagle - Bros.
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-051192111513@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 19:16:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: 192.mike_steiner-051192111513
- References: <Bx5r81.IFD@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov4.144713.241@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov4.144713.241@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
- geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner) wrote:
- >
- > In <Bx5r81.IFD@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075mdyd@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (SQUID) writes:
- >
- > >Could someone please tell me what has happened to Beagle Brothers Software?
- > >I heard they went belly-up. Could someone confirm this. Please include all
- > >details.
- >
- > MacWeek reported in the 10.19 issue that Lotus had signed a letter of
- > intent to purchase, market, develop, and distribute BeagleWorks. Beagle
- > Bros. apparently could no longer afford the cost of competition with
- > Microsoft, Claris, and Symantec in the integrated package market.
- >
- > Since Lotus recently abandoned LotusWorks for Mac this doesn't come as a
- > total suprise.
- >
- > Neither company was willing to comment of course.
-
- I think that you mean Word Perfect, not Lotus. Anyway, in the 11/2 issue,
- they reported that it is a done deal, and that Mark Simonson, former
- president of Beagle Brothers, is now in charge of the product at Word
- Perfect Corp.
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