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From: Patt Ricketts <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] V.8 Word Perfect Options
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:17:35 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tom Gull <> wrote:

> I've been watching the responses to this from WordPerfect users with
> interest. I worked for a company who was confronted in the 1990s with
> WordPerfect's drop from having massive market share to less than 10% by
> 1996. I found some postings from this year online that measured the market
> share for WordPerfect in multiple countries, and the sampled numbers ranged
> from very low (less than 1%) to 3.7% in the US and 4% in Canada. It seems
> probable that the number of people using TMG who exclusively want
> WordPerfect support is similar. So the underlying question for WhollyGenes
> is the same as for other development companies: is the investment needed
> to
> provide WordPerfect support way out of proportion to the return on that
> investment? If they spend money at a loss to do it, what features will
> everyone else not get that could otherwise be delivered (the opportunity
> cost)?
>
>
I think that Word Perfect is perhaps more alive than you think I have
WordPerfect X5 which has a copyright of 2010.

I don't know how prevalent it is now. But many legal offices used it
exclusively.

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Patt Ricketts
www.jackandpatt.com

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