In a message to Sean Dennis, Murray Lesser wrote re: It's over?

ML>     An early version of Star Office (called "IBM Works" at the time) was
ML> distributed (free) with the Warp 3 Bonus Pak. 

Actually, IBMWorks is the old "Footprint Works" application 
suite.  IBM bought Footprint shortly before Warp v3 was released 
and provided it free with both Warp v3 and v4 as a demonstration 
of what WPS integration could offer.  Although IBMWorks isn't as 
feature-rich as most current office suites, it is quite well 
integrated into the WPS, which is something StarOffice can't 
claim.  The sad thing is that all development on IBMWorks seems 
to have stopped.  I find it a quite capable package, especially 
on my laptop where resources are too limited to support something
like StarOffice.

BTW, StarDivision, the creators of Star Office, began in the mid 
1980's with a DOS word processor called "Star Writer."  it was 
quite well received, especially in Europe where it was long seen 
as a viable MS-Word contender.  In the early 1990's Star Writer 
was migrated to Windows and eventually evolved into the Star 
Office suite.


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