Together with Microsoft and the chip-maker Intel, it effectively produced an ad hoc industry standard. Most companies that hoped to outperform this standard configuration sometimes succeeded technically but failed commercially.
There were some major early microcomputer software product areas. Word Processing software leadership came in waves. But the challenge of maintaining its old command structure and modernizing the product was too much. By , it yielded leadership to MultiMate, a procedural clone of the dedicated Wang word processor, and to Samna, a virtual clone of the Lanier word processor. All of these companies and their products were overwhelmed by Microsoft with its new Word program which became an international, de facto, industry standard in the s.
Poor quality product revisions for dBase IV and failure to produce a compiler driven version, combined with the entry of Paradox and rBase, eroded this dominant position. Today, various relational database management systems compete in the personal computer database market. VisiCalc was the first and the leading spreadsheet program until , when a little startup company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, turned this segment of the software industry around.
Lotus Development Corp. It not only provided another reason for people to buy a PC, but it outsold VisiCalc within the first year of its existence. Together with word processors and database management systems, the Lotus spreadsheet program stimulated the business market and the incredible growth in the use of microcomputers.
Lotus too was later outmaneuvered by Microsoft and was replaced by the Excel spreadsheet program, which became the international, de facto, standard. In Apple introduced a very friendly visual user interface on its new Macintosh computer, based on creative work at Xerox PARC in the s. Software companies did not find the Macintosh market large enough to be willing to invest the skills and time required to produce software programs to run on that platform.
Macintosh penetration hovered around ten percent of the corporate market among the IT departments that installed and maintained applications. But its penetration in marketing departments or wherever graphic artists are employed was and is much higher. This was because the Apple operating system and screen graphics were significantly more responsive to the needs of these specialized users.
Microsoft labored for many years to produce an effective competitor to the Macintosh operating system, but did not succeed until when it delivered Windows 3. In , for the first time, a microcomputer software company reached the top of the list of largest software companies, as Lotus replaced Cullinet for sales.
Ashton-Tate was also among the top ten software companies. It held that position through the s and through most of the first decade after , until Oracle with its mix of products and SAP with its manufacturing programs became the leading software vendors. See Table 2. If any event could be marked as a significant milestone for networking, it would be the National Computer Conference in Las Vegas.
General Motors and other users demonstrated a multi-vendor local area network LAN on the floor of the National Computer Conference, proving it could be done. In another connectivity milestone, 53 percent of sites that had both mainframes and PCs had some sort of links between the two by , or planned to implement such links, according to Computer Intelligence Corp. Developed from Arpanet, the critical initial application for the Internet was email, which introduced personal computers to the home and supported the growth of e-Commerce.
Then the World Wide Web, created by Tim Berners-Lee for CERN, opened up the growth of information searching and the exchange of information, pictures, audio, and video to everyone in the world with an Internet connection. Although the Internet and World Wide Web have become ubiquitous and are used by everyone in business and personal reasons, they have not resulted in the creation of large, independent software products companies. Netscape was successful in with its browser based on Mosaic, which was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
However most of the growth has been through Software as a Service SaaS companies that build specialized software, but do not sell it directly. Rather, they earn their revenue from advertising embedded in their responses to queries or entries from their users. This is not a software products model and there are no software products firms which have become significant in this marketplace. The development of machines for games and physical interaction has provided another multi-billion dollar market for software packages.
There are a number of companies that sell game software, and some of these have become significant in size. Computers are now everywhere, but we rarely see them. We do not even use them as computers, since they are embedded as custom chips in watches, satellite navigation devices, cameras, personal digital assistants, and more recently in multipurpose hand-held devices that provide voice communications, take pictures, show video, and play music.
The programming is all special purpose and produced by or for the manufacturers of the devices. From a software industry standpoint, the biggest change has been that there are virtually no major software companies producing the programs for these platforms. The new frontier is non-computer devices that can perform various application functions. Smart phones and tablets represent a new generation of mobile devices that have created a massive market for application programs.
The Apple iPhone and iPad have hundreds of thousands of applications, each of which performs a useful or entertaining function for users. Producing apps for smart phones and tablets is a marketplace for individuals who create high performance software products; these are marketed through the companies selling the equipment on which the apps operate.
Current liabilities are generally paid out of current assets or through creation of other current liabilities. Examples of such liabilities include accounts payable, customer advances, etc. This percentage represents all current loans and notes payable to Canadian chartered banks and foreign bank subsidiaries, with the exception of loans from a foreign bank, loans secured by real estate mortgages, bankers acceptances, bank mortgages and the current portion of long-term bank loans.
This percentage represents obligations that are not reasonably expected to be liquidated within the normal operating cycle of the business but, instead, are payable at some date beyond that time.
It includes obligations such as long-term bank loans and notes payable to Canadian chartered banks and foreign subsidiaries, with the exception of loans secured by real estate mortgages, loans from foreign banks and bank mortgages and other long-term liabilities. This percentage represents the obligations of an enterprise arising from past transactions or events, the settlements of which may result in the transfer of assets, provision of services or other yielding of economic benefits in the future.
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