[ghaff]

Essentially Cornerstone. They made large investments in developing, marketing, and selling it and it basically flopped although it had a variety of innovative features from a technology perspective.

Arguably they were also slow to branch beyond pure text adventure games but the investments in business software were the bigger near-term problem.

[at-fates-hands]

Sounds like Cornerstone was ahead of its time.

[ghaff]

More like it was going up against very entrenched PC competition--especially dBase which its usability advantages weren't sufficient to overcome.