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Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) was a Mountain View, California-based manufacturer of business software, originally well known for its "pfs:" series (and its subsequent "pfs:First" and "pfs:Professional" derivative series) of business software products, it was ultimately best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program.

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  • Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) fue un fabricante de software empresarial con sede en Mountain View, California, originalmente fue conocido por su serie de paquetes "pfs:" (y sus posteriores series derivadas "pfs: First" y "pfs: Professional") de productos de software empresarial, finalmente fue mejor conocido por su pionero programa de negocios y gráficos de presentación, Harvard Graphics. Aunque el primer producto de SPC fue desarrollado para la computadora personal Apple II, la mayoría de sus productos se utilizaron en computadoras de escritorio con sistema operativo DOS basadas en texto, con interfaces de usuario no gráficas (GUI), mucho antes de que existieran las GUI gráficas de Macintosh o Microsoft Windows. Un beneficio destacado de Harvard Graphics, entonces, fue que trajo sofisticadas capacidades gráficas en pantalla a las computadoras que ejecutaban el sistema operativo DOS, normalmente no gráfico, basado en texto. Este factor jugó un papel en la desaparición final de la compañía en 1996, ya que Microsoft Windows se distribuía en la mayoría de las computadoras de escritorio. Windows incorporó capacidades gráficas, y gran parte de lo que Harvard Graphics proporcionaba ya no era necesario. SPC se apresuró en desarrollar una versión para Windows de Harvard Graphics, pero los grandes competidores y sus herramientas gráficas de presentación y negocios nativas para Windows habían penetrado tanto en el mercado de Windows que para entonces fue demasiado poco y tarde. A medida que las PC basadas en DOS comenzaron a desaparecer, también lo hicieron los ingresos de SPC. (es)
  • Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) was a Mountain View, California-based manufacturer of business software, originally well known for its "pfs:" series (and its subsequent "pfs:First" and "pfs:Professional" derivative series) of business software products, it was ultimately best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program. Though SPC's earliest product was for the Apple II personal computer, most of its products were for use on text-based DOS desktop computers, with non-graphical-user-interfaces (GUI), long before the graphical GUIs of Macintosh or Microsoft Windows existed. A salient benefit of Harvard Graphics, then, was that it brought sophisticated on-screen graphics capabilities to computers running the normally non-graphical, text-based DOS operating system. This factor played a role in the company's ultimate demise in 1996, as Microsoft Windows was shipping on most desktop computers. Windows incorporated built-in graphical capabilities, so much of what Harvard Graphics provided was no longer needed. SPC scrambled to develop a Windows version of Harvard Graphics, but big competitors and their Windows-native business and presentation graphics tools had so penetrated the Windows market by then that it was just too little, too late. As MS-DOS began to disappear, so did SPC's revenues. (en)
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  • Acquired by Allegro New Media, Inc. (en)
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  • 1980-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • October 1996 (en)
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  • Acquired by Allegro New Media, Inc. (en)
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  • April 1980 (en)
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  • Fred Gibbons, Janelle Bedke, John Page – Founders (en)
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  • Software Publishing Corporation (en)
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  • Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) fue un fabricante de software empresarial con sede en Mountain View, California, originalmente fue conocido por su serie de paquetes "pfs:" (y sus posteriores series derivadas "pfs: First" y "pfs: Professional") de productos de software empresarial, finalmente fue mejor conocido por su pionero programa de negocios y gráficos de presentación, Harvard Graphics. (es)
  • Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) was a Mountain View, California-based manufacturer of business software, originally well known for its "pfs:" series (and its subsequent "pfs:First" and "pfs:Professional" derivative series) of business software products, it was ultimately best known for its pioneering Harvard Graphics business and presentation graphics program. (en)
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