#Quarkxpress big sur mac
In an insightful blog authored by Dave Girard in 2014, entitled "How QuarkXPress became a Mere Afterthought in Publishing," he points to several of Quark's shortcomings, including its failure to embrace and support the Apple Macintosh platform, despite knowing that graphic designers in the desktop publishing space prized their Mac computers (a loyal group that largely kept Apple going as a viable company during that time period. I also heard several complaints, although admittedly anecdotal, about Quark's poor, or even lack of, customer support that help lead to its market share loss. Our magazine publishing and in-house graphic design operation, like so many, was a QuarkXPress user that transitioned over to InDesign several years ago largely for those reasons.
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In fact, from my perspective, Quark and the way that it lost its virtual monopoly with a reported 95% market share in the professional publishing space to a then-upstart Adobe InDesign alternative - that launched without much fanfare in 1999 - would serve as a great case study for the Harvard Business Review on everything a company can do wrong to alienate its customer base through a perceived "arrogance," poor customer service/support, and software version upgrades that didn't fall in line with the needs of the graphic designers and printers who used QuarkXPress.
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I had to step back for a second. As an editor involved in the magazine publishing and printing industries who was exposed to QuarkXPress software during the evolutionary days of desktop publishing throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Quark surely isn't the "transformational" company that I recall. Parallax is looking forward to bringing its experience and expertise to help Quark take its enterprise content automation business to the next level.” This is a company with outstanding talent and leadership, innovative technology and an acclaimed customer base. The release also included a quote from James Hale, managing partner at Parallax, who notes, “Quark is having a transformational impact within a wide range of industries, completely redefining how organizations create, manage, publish and deliver business-critical content. The release stated that the new owners intend to help Quark accelerate the adoption of its "transformational content automation solutions" through organic growth and via acquisitions. It revealed that Quark has been acquired by Parallax Capital Partners, a software-focused private equity firm located in Laguna Hills, Calif., which has purchased more than 20 companies since 1999.
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