At 10:31 AM 10/27/2000 -0700, Gavin Scott wrote:
>Tom wrote:
> > I don't think I have ever heard of a company, which is not specifically
> > in the computer business, successfully selling internally developed
> > systems to the outside world.
>
>There have been quite a number of successfully "spun off" application
>packages that started out as in-house applications.  The key though is that
>all the successful cases involved the company that developed the software
>*becoming* a "computer business" as a result.
>

Or, as in Mr. Johnson's example, a company was spun off from the main
business whose core business was the software package.

>G.