Ashton-Tate. They were one of the three largest software companies in the world (together with Microsoft and Lotus) in their time. Then they shipped Dbase IV v1.0, that was full of bugs. Instead of focusing on fixing them and shipping a v1.1, they focused on other products while their customers stopped buying v1.0 and waited for v1.1 with the expected bug fixes. They ended up selling themselves to Borland.
Fun fact: Ashton was actually George Tate's parrot, living in a large cage in the L.A. office.
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Ashton-Tate. They were one of the three largest software companies in the world (together with Microsoft and Lotus) in their time. Then they shipped Dbase IV v1.0, that was full of bugs. Instead of focusing on fixing them and shipping a v1.1, they focused on other products while their customers stopped buying v1.0 and waited for v1.1 with the expected bug fixes. They ended up selling themselves to Borland.
Fun fact: Ashton was actually George Tate's parrot, living in a large cage in the L.A. office.