![]() What Dragon Systems has besides balance-sheet strength and good products, is a young and extremely fluid market niche that it already shares with big scary competitors like I.B.M., Royal Philips Electronics N.V. And one cannot gauge the success of an initial public offering by the testimonials of injured journalists. Ask folks who still have a Sony Betamax in the closet. In fact, I now find it so much faster to dictate an article than to type it that I would continue to use Dragon's product even if typing were once again a pain-free option.īut great products do not always add up to great investments. As a result, this column (and everything else I have written over the last year, from personal letters to a nearly finished book) was written with the help of the company's Dragon Naturally Speaking software, which converts words spoken conversationally into a computer's microphone into words typed on the computer's screen. In the interest of full disclosure: Early in 1997, I was hit with a mild but stubborn case of carpal tunnel syndrome that continues to make long typing sessions painful. ![]() ![]() Its two 50-something founders can remember when computers filled entire rooms, not just entire briefcases. ![]() Dragon Systems, a developer of speech-recognition software in Newton, Mass., that is scheduled to sell shares to the public sometime in the next few weeks, is not your typical software debutante. ![]()
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