Stardock was there because of our workplace shell leadership and Pinnacle was there because of their leadership in the security market. Voicetype was a niche that required a ton of memory and was incompatible with many programs that used sound. And Open32 well, it had more issues than this article room for. That s not to say that Warp 4 wasn t a good OS and a worthy upgrade it is. But a successful product requires it to have a defined market, good distribution, and be technically sound.
Many people just didn t know why they needed to upgrade.
Many of the sales came from an unexpected source end users who, as this point, IBM wanted to go away.