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To: A. Reader who wrote (5702)	10/20/1998 11:51:00 PM
From: BrownBag	Respond to of 9798

As the lead for the Wordperfect for Java project, I told Paul Skillen 2 1/2 years ago that trying to do a mini version of WP was a bad idea. He agreed, but Eid was still responsible for direction at the time. Paul said that trying to convince Mike that the idea was bad was the wrong battle to fight at the time. There was a lot of things we could have done, that would have been interesting and probably saleable at the same time, but Mike would have nothing of it. I got to spend some time talking with Mike, but he could not believe that there was not a lot of money in trying to build a mini-suite. The version of "WP" that was done in the last year or so, was nothing more than a fancy text control. It did not have a single line of code in common with the original version. The people who wrote it had no concept of how to write a well behaved Java Bean that could act as a text editor. There is nothing that they "learned" that we could not have told them 2 years ago. Actually, we did tell them. They just wouldn't listen. One of our more vocal critics, and the top developer in the original WP Java project was given an official reprimand and threatened with his job if he told anyone other developers in the company his opinions that the project wouldn't work. I know because I had to be the person who gave the reprimand under Paul Skillen's direction.