It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
  This is the sickest aspect of the whole computer
industry, ALL of the
 companies that made fairly good reliable products went under from the 
 flood
  of dollars the BAD heavily marketed software
generated via updates.
 
 Well, I wish a few more of them would go.  I can't imagine what companies,
 now defunct, produced this set of "fairly good reliable products " have gone
 down the toilet because they were outspent or outmarketed by MS.  An example
 or two would be nice. 
 
  Borland?  Oh that's right, you don't do software development.  Umm ...
  -spc (Hey, at least that's one ... )