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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1381050">Time for me to change costume and become ... da da DA! ... PEDANTIC MAN!!Actually, harryb, the story is a bit more complex than that, but the short version is that Apple never bought Claris.Claris was (as you probably do know) spun off from Apple in 1987. At the time, there was a product called AppleWorks, but eventually Claris produced its own version (from scratch, amazingly enough). It eventually reached version 5, which appeared very briefly under the ClarisWorks name before being re-branded.In 1998, Claris divested itself of all the former Apple products except one, and ClarisWorks was given to Apple, which renamed it AppleWorks (5.0). Claris kept Filemaker and rebranded itself FileMaker Inc. and continues to be a very successful company.So AppleWorks was the forerunner of ClarisWorks which was the forerunner of AppleWorks! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />My work here is done, citizens. I must go -- somewhere on the internet, someone is WRONG and needs CORRECTION!(flies off)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1381050"] Time for me to change costume and become ... da da DA! ... PEDANTIC MAN!! Actually, harryb, the story is a bit more complex than that, but the short version is that Apple never bought Claris. Claris was (as you probably do know) spun off from Apple in 1987. At the time, there was a product called AppleWorks, but eventually Claris produced its own version (from scratch, amazingly enough). It eventually reached version 5, which appeared very briefly under the ClarisWorks name before being re-branded. In 1998, Claris divested itself of all the former Apple products except one, and ClarisWorks was given to Apple, which renamed it AppleWorks (5.0). Claris kept Filemaker and rebranded itself FileMaker Inc. and continues to be a very successful company. So AppleWorks was the forerunner of ClarisWorks which was the forerunner of AppleWorks! :) My work here is done, citizens. I must go -- somewhere on the internet, someone is WRONG and needs CORRECTION! (flies off) [/QUOTE]

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