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Right now with any number of new products hitting the home market, it seems appropriate to look at what's happening in microcomputer business software.
The growth in the software market for personal computers has been impressive -- sales will be an estimated $2.3 billion this year, up from $1 1/2 billion the previous year. Even more impressive, in another sense, is the number of players the market has attracted -- an estimated 3,000.
In fact, there are over 20,000 programs available today. (Just for fun, try figuring out on your microcomputer how long it would take you to run a sample problem on each one.)
The big news in 1984 was the growth of integrated software that lets you do more than one task at a time, and the feceoff between Lotus Development's Symphony and Ashton-Tate's Frame-work. Symphony and Ashton-Tate's Framework. integrated package with multi-million dollar marketing blitzes. (It's interesting to note that a survey by INFOWORLD, Symphony and Ashton-Tate's Framework. Each company launched its new
Adding fuel to an already heated software battle was the fall announcement by IBM...