Story of WordPerfect – Change is the rule of life
Seth Godin wrote a post about – Pick Anything- Calculus of Change and few days back I read a book (story) Almost Perfect (you can read the book online for free) about WordPerfect authored by one of the executive of the maker of software. The book describes the rise and fall of WordPerfect.
As mentioned by Seth Godin change in Operating System brought Microsoft Word into limelight and once ubiquitous WordPerfect is almost vanished now. Change is the rule of life where everyone participates and molds themselves. We can see change around us all the time – the way people are embracing Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogs is one of the example of how these tools are changing the way people disseminate news and information.
That’s why we saw influx of web 2.0 start ups in 2006-2008 where every other entrepreneur was selling/marketting their ideas (no matter how crappy was it). For example if we consider 100 web 2.0 application then 15 survives and 5 of them excel and become maas’s product and that brings the change which we adopt by using these products.
There is inherent Power in Change and one has to capitalize the moment to make use of the Change.
