An edition of Riding the runaway horse
(1992)
Riding the runaway horse
the rise and decline of Wang Laboratories
1st ed.
by Charles Kenney
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An interesting book about an early computer pioneer, and the meteoric rise of his company and its equally meteoric demise. Perhaps the saddest aspect of the book is that the fundamental flaw in Wang's character was that he was a control freak and determined to allow no one except his son Fred to manage the company . This, and the fact essentially the company became a one product enterprise, resulted in its rapid failure once the need for the product ( a stand alone word processor ) evaporated with the advent of the PC
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Riding the runaway horse: the rise and decline of Wang Laboratories
1992, Little, Brown
in English
- 1st ed.
0316489190 9780316489195
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