Re: Beagle Brothers

[mmunz@inconnect.com (Mark Munz)]

In article <19961207113200.GAA12924@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
icssofty@aol.com wrote:

>>>No, they went under.. Nobody bought their BeagleWorks (Mac) program, and
>they went kaput.<<
>
>Actually, WordPerfect bought it, the company, hired Beagle's owner,
>shuffled all the remaining Apple II stuff and one Mac title to (Scantron)
>Quality Computers, and turned it into WordPerfect Works.  Then it went
>into oblivion.
>
>Larry :)

Actually, WordPerfect hired Beagle's owner and myself. BeagleWorks became
WPWorks 1.2/1.2.1 and then was ported to Windows where it became WPWorks
2.0 for Windows, then renamed to PerfectWorks 2.1 and finally the latest
PerfectWorks 3.0 for Windows 95.

Sadly, Novell bought WordPerfect between WPWorks 2.0 and PerfectWorks 2.1
and management would not allow the development group to bring it back to
the Macintosh to fight ClarisWorks (WPWorks 2.0-PW3.0 was basically a
complete rewrite and offered significant features and functionality in all
parts of the product).

When Corel bought WordPerfect applications, they tried to buy
PerfectWorks, but Novell refused to sell it to them. Novell then sold it
to Fountain Computers? which had previously OEM'd PerfectWorks.

Beagle Bros, the company, still exists - sort of. It's a paper company,
nothing more.

That's the scoop!

Mark Munz