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Quarterdeck Office Systems, later Quarterdeck Corporation (NASDAQ: QDEK), was an American computer software company. It was founded by Therese Myers〔(Board of Trustees ) - Boston College〕〔(Our Team ) - InfraTab〕 and Gary Pope in 1981 and incorporated in 1982. Their offices were initially located at 150 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, California and later at 13160 Mindanao Way in Marina del Rey, California, as well as a sales and technical support unit located in Clearwater, Florida. In the 1990s, they had a European office in Dublin, Ireland. Their most famous products were the Quarterdeck Expanded Memory Manager, DESQview, CleanSweep, DESQview/X, Quarterdeck Mosaic, Manifest and Partition-It.〔(Divvying up Disks ) PC Mag, 25. März 1997, S. 66〕 On April 18, 1989, Quarterdeck was awarded a US software patent that allowed multiple windowed PC applications under MS-DOS.〔(Patent Is Won By Quarterdeck ) - NY Times〕 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.〔(LA Times Article )〕〔(SEC )〕〔(WSJ Article )〕 In 1995, the company acquired Landmark Research International Corp. for 3.5 million shares of Quarterdeck (acquiring MagnaRAM and WinProbe)〔PR Newswire, June 30, 1995. "Quarterdeck Acquires Landmark Research International"〕 and then Inset Systems, Inc. of Brookfield, Connecticut in September of that year for 933,000 shares of Quarterdeck (acquiring HiJaak graphics software in the deal).〔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".〕 In March 1996, Quarterdeck acquired Datastorm Technologies, Inc., publishers of PROCOMM and PROCOMM PLUS, and relocated its technical support and development operations from California and Florida, to Datastorm's Columbia, Missouri headquarters.〔(SEC.gov form 8k )〕 In July 1996, Quarterdeck acquired Vertisoft Systems, publishers of the DoubleDisk and Fix-It utiltities, also for 3.5 million shares of Quarterdeck. 〔(SEC form 8K )〕 Both Landmark and Vertisoft had extensive revenues from direct-marketing of third party products through telemarketing and direct mail.〔http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/707668/0000944209-98-002115.txt SEC form 10k]〕 Bastiaens resigned in August 1996, and Quarterdeck continued under acting Co-CEOs King R. Lee, and Anatoly Tikhman, the former CEO of Vertisoft.〔(SEC.gov company press release )〕 The company announced a restructuring and a loss, and in January 1997, Quarterdeck hired Curtis Hessler to run the company. ==List of software products== * CleanSweep * DESQ, predecessor to DESQview * DESQview (DESQ successor, with 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〔(Quarterdeck Mosaic screen shots )〕 * Quarterdeck Sidebar * QRAM, an Intel 80286-based expanded memory manager * TotalWeb * ViruSweep * WebCompass, an early metasearch tool * WebStar (via StarNine) * WebTalk * Files.com 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quarterdeck Office Systems」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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