http://www.wonderware.com/corporateinfo/
The site features quotes like:
In 1997, the company made another quantum leap beyond its competition by
offering its entire product line as a single toolset called the Wonderware
FactorySuite. This cost-effective bundle of products was modeled on the
concept of the Microsoft Office suite of office automation programs. It
provided industry's first integrated set of application programs for
developing most any application in manufacturing, continuous process and
batch industries.
This might seem quite humorous until you realize they had $82.5 million in
revenues for 1997, which is certainly more revenue than I had as a graduate
student :-)
- Jim