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High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson: "Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very cool, very big idea into FrontPage, the first
by shrubble 4y ago
High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson:
"Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very cool, very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. A mere twenty months after starting the company, he sold it to Microsoft for $133 million, making a fortune for himself and his associates. FrontPage now has millions of users and is bundled with Microsoft Office. But getting there wasn't always fun."
- eastbound 4y agoIt’s always funny to hear positive things about an infamously awful piece of software. Like someone would write about IE5, or Larry Ellison writing Oracle, they did irremediable harm to the world, but the people who grew when those people were young, may still have the positive initial image of them.