Almost Perfect
After hearing about the book Almost Perfect from Coding Horror I decided to read it. The book is out of print and free to read online. It covers the rise and fall of the WordPerfect Corporation. Very interesting read. I enjoyed the historical aspects relating to the computer industry at the time.
As pertaining to the author who co-founded the WordPerfect Corporation. I thought that it sounded a lot like the company was run with no real structure or organization. It is almost ironic that the way the corporation was started by-passed all the business development steps that may have helped in the end. But what really crushed WordPerfect was their own inability to develop a solid product on Windows. The whole reason why WordPerfect was number one on DOS was because it was the great product. I think they automatically assumed that because they had a great DOS product that their Windows product would be just as great.