Quarterdeck Office Systems
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Quarterdeck Office Systems, later Quarterdeck Corporation (
and incorporated in 1982. Their offices were initially located at 150 Pico Boulevard inOn April 18, 1989, Quarterdeck was awarded a US software patent that allowed multiple windowed PC applications under MS-DOS.[5]
After sales and its stock plummeted in 1995, interim CEO King R. Lee hired Gaston Bastiaens as CEO. In order to diversify the company's product offerings, Bastiaens began an ultimately unsuccessful acquisition spree.[6][7][8]
In 1995, the company acquired Landmark Research International Corp. for 3.5 million shares of Quarterdeck (acquiring
In March 1996, Quarterdeck acquired
In July 1996, Quarterdeck acquired Vertisoft Systems, publishers of the
Bastiaens resigned in August 1996, and Quarterdeck continued under acting Co-CEOs King R. Lee, and Anatoly Tikhman, the former CEO of Vertisoft.[7] The company announced a restructuring and a loss, and in January 1997, Quarterdeck hired Curtis Hessler to run the company.[11][14]
In 1998, with its DOS utilities market all but collapsed, Quarterdeck was acquired for $0.52 per share by
List of software products
- CleanSweep
- DESQ, predecessor to DESQview
- DESQview (DESQ successor, with IBM TopView compatibility)
- DESQview 386 (DESQview that shipped bundled with QEMM 386)
- DESQview/X (an X based version of DESQview)
- GameRunner
- GlobalChat IRC client
- GlobalStage IRC server (run on irc.scifi.com until 2003)
- HiJaak Graphics Suite
- MagnaRAM
- Manifest
- Partition-It!
- Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, formerly QEMM 386
- Quarterdeck InternetSuite
- Quarterdeck Message Center
- Quarterdeck Mosaic[16]
- Quarterdeck Sidebar
- expanded memory manager
- TotalWeb
- ViruSweep
- Quarterdeck WebAuthor for Word[17]
- WebCompass, an early metasearch tool
- WebStar(via StarNine)
- WebTalk
- Files.com
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- ^ Special to the New York Times (1989-04-19). "Patent Is Won By Quarterdeck". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
- ^ PETRUNO, TOM (15 September 1995). "Internet Hype Gives New Life to Quarterdeck Stock". Retrieved 25 June 2016 – via LA Times.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 22, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
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- ^ PR Newswire, June 30, 1995. "Quarterdeck Acquires Landmark Research International"
- ^ PR Newswire, September 06, 1995. "Quarterdeck Signs Agreement to Acquire Inset Systems, Inc.; Inset Shipped This Week a Complete Graphic Utilities Solution for Windows 95".
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
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- ^ "Quaterdesk's Mosaic Screen Image". Netline.be. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
- ^ "Review: Quarterdeck Web Author". Alamopc.org. Retrieved 2016-06-25.