Does software lose credibility when it's inexpensive? A $49.95 accounting program offers most of the features of many expensive rivals

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Pacioli 2000 ($49.95), from M-USA Business Systems Inc in Dallas, TX, is accounting software for IBM PCs or compatibles. The program costs costs only $50 but appears to be the equal of high-end accounting programs. Pacioli 2000 was developed by Jose M. Hurtado, who has insisted that Pacioli's price stay low, that the program be simple to learn and that technical support be free. Hurtado's strategy is said to involve making his profits from the sale of business forms to Pacioli customers - 'giving away razors in order to sell blades.' Pacioli 2000 incorporates eight accounting modules, and the program can be used on networks or on individual workstations. Pacioli comes with a videotape that teaches MS-DOS, accounting and the program itself. Pacioli will be sold direct from M-USA, eliminating middlemen. Curiously, Pacioli might be difficult to market because customers may assume it is too simple for them.

Product information, Accounting, Accounting software, Evaluation, Economics of Computing, Marketing Strategy, M-USA Business Systems Inc., Pacioli 2000 (Financial software)

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The font wars: new weapons are rolled out; competing standards remain, creating tough choices for large business customers

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Adobe Systems Inc is in a struggle against the combined forces of Apple Computer and Microsoft Corp to determine who will become the dominant player in the computer font market. Virtually every computer user with a printer will be effected by the outcome of this competition over which technology for generating digital typefaces will become the standard. Adobe has long been the market leader with its Postscript technology, but its position was threatened by the defection of it biggest customer, Apple, which joined Microsoft against Adobe. Along with Microsoft, Apple created the Truetype font technology, which has received rave reviews, but which is not yet ready for market. To confuse matters even more IBM has stated it will support both Truetype and Postscript to give consumers a choice.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., ADBE, Computer peripherals industry, MSFT, Computer fonts, Font Package

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War for the desktop

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Operating systems for microcomputers are varied and competition between them in the market place is keen. The competition is especially fierce between the Apple Macintosh standard and the Microsoft Corp DOS and Windows combination. The popularity of the Microsoft Windows 3.0 graphical user interface is in some ways usurping the Apple Macintosh advantage but the war for the desktop is not limited to these two players. UNIX is making its way into the marketplace and OS/2 still has momentum to replace DOS. OS/2 was expected to replace DOS by the early 1990s but it now seems that it may take a long time, if it happens at all. None of these operating systems may survive the 1990s because of the rate at which computer technology is advancing.

Standards, Microcomputers, Operating systems (Software), Operating systems, Supply and demand, MS-DOS, UNIX, Operating System, Microcomputer, OS/2, OS/2 (Operating system)

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