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Cornerstone was a great tool, sigh.

• mgalka 11y ago
  >"Cornerstone is the best program I have ever used" Sounds like everything they built was really good. Read the piece, but still hard to piece together why they failed.
  • ghaff 11y ago
    Essentially Cornerstone. They made large investments in developing, marketing, and selling it and it basically flopped although it had a variety of innovative features from a technology perspective. Arguably they were also slow to branch beyond pure text adventure games but the investments in business software were the bigger near-term problem.
    • at-fates-hands 11y ago
      Sounds like Cornerstone was ahead of its time.
      • ghaff 11y ago
        More like it was going up against very entrenched PC competition--especially dBase which its usability advantages weren't sufficient to overcome.
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  • sehugg 11y ago
    Wikipedia has a couple of ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_%28software%29#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_%28software%29#Rec... But in 1985, dBase and its clones were ascendant, and they were plentiful and programmable and somewhat language-compatible. Lots of people were employed hacking on dBase code for small businesses. (I also wonder if piracy made dBase more ubiquitous...)