[comp.sys.mac] FullWrite Sold to Ashton-Tate

sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (02/10/88)

I just leafed through this week's copy of InfoWorld and ran across a
rather disturbing article.  If it were early April, I'd feel better, 
because then it would be a joke...

At any rate, the article says that FullWrite Professional has been
sold to Ashton-Tate.  It continues by saying that Ashton-Tate will finish
the development and then market the product.

Is this true?  If so, where does that leave all of us prepaid customers
who now have gamma versions.  As they say, "we are not amused"...


Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop

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lyman@eos.UUCP (Lyman Taylor) (02/12/88)

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	To confirm what Info-World said I read today that Ashton-Tate had
indeed bought AAS and was going to market FullWrite.  In addition, they are
suppose to intro a spreadsheet this summer written by Encore, the people who
brought MacWrite.

	Hopefully A-T will handle AAS like Symantec handles THINK.
		Don't mess with something that works