Should CSC offer one version of Modeler? Which one? Or two? Which two? Or all three?

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Cambridge Software Corporation "If we don't decide soon, Paula, your people won't have time to make changes in the software and to write the documentation for the student version, and my people won't have time to publicize the software at colleges and with professors. It's already Thanksgiving; any further delay, and we won't be ready for the next academic yr" Tony Atkinson, the new product manager at Cambridge Software Corporation (csc) was meeting with Paula Stewards, vice president, Software Development, and Chuck Kennedy, csc's president and chairman, in November 2008 to decide whether to offer multiple versions of Modeler, a new modeling software product. Stewards responded to Atkinson's appeal. "It's easy for you to push for several versions of Modeler. After all, in your previous job, you were responsible for a line of different "GPs navigation devices. Before that, it was a line of mobile phones. And, before that, laptop computers. But, for us multiple product versions is a new concept. As it is, my people have enough trouble developing, documenting, and supporting one version of a cross-operating system software product (Modeler would be compatible with Microsoft Windows, Mac os, and Linux operating systems). And you are pushing for three versions of a software product of which we don't have even one version ready! Kennedy knew both Atkinson and Stewards were right in their own ways. He had hired Atkinson to help move CSC from individual products to multi-version product lines. On the other hand Stewards also had a point. Kennedy could not argue with Atkinson on one thing the next school year was only nine months away. In any case, because of another product CSC was developing, the market window for Modeler was at most two years. It was now or never. beginning of the Background Cambridge Software Corporation was founded in 1993 by Chuck Kennedy and Doug Hanser, graduate students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science department. CSC's first "headquarters" were located in Kennedy's ramshackle attic apartment near Kendall Square in east Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first product was a computer program to study the dynamics of hydraulic flows in open channels. That was fifteen years, many products, an initial public offering, four stock splits, and a dot.com surge-and-bust ago. By 2008, csc had grown to a $100-million, 250-person company with corporate headquarters in a new building in a technology park in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Kennedy had exchanged his tattered jeans and shaggy beard for the attire of president and chairman of a successful company. Hansen, uncomfortable with the growth and concomitant change, had left the corporation and started a dairy farm in Vermont. Cambridge Software Corporation "If we don't decide soon, Paula, your people won't have time to make changes in the software and to write the documentation for the student version, and my people won't have time to publicize the software at colleges and with professors. It's already Thanksgiving; any further delay, and we won't be ready for the next academic yr" Tony Atkinson, the new product manager at Cambridge Software Corporation (csc) was meeting with Paula Stewards, vice president, Software Development, and Chuck Kennedy, csc's president and chairman, in November 2008 to decide whether to offer multiple versions of Modeler, a new modeling software product. Stewards responded to Atkinson's appeal. "It's easy for you to push for several versions of Modeler. After all, in your previous job, you were responsible for a line of different "GPs navigation devices. Before that, it was a line of mobile phones. And, before that, laptop computers. But, for us multiple product versions is a new concept. As it is, my people have enough trouble developing, documenting, and supporting one version of a cross-operating system software product (Modeler would be compatible with Microsoft Windows, Mac os, and Linux operating systems). And you are pushing for three versions of a software product of which we don't have even one version ready! Kennedy knew both Atkinson and Stewards were right in their own ways. He had hired Atkinson to help move CSC from individual products to multi-version product lines. On the other hand Stewards also had a point. Kennedy could not argue with Atkinson on one thing the next school year was only nine months away. In any case, because of another product CSC was developing, the market window for Modeler was at most two years. It was now or never. beginning of the Background Cambridge Software Corporation was founded in 1993 by Chuck Kennedy and Doug Hanser, graduate students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science department. CSC's first "headquarters" were located in Kennedy's ramshackle attic apartment near Kendall Square in east Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first product was a computer program to study the dynamics of hydraulic flows in open channels. That was fifteen years, many products, an initial public offering, four stock splits, and a dot.com surge-and-bust ago. By 2008, csc had grown to a $100-million, 250-person company with corporate headquarters in a new building in a technology park in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Kennedy had exchanged his tattered jeans and shaggy beard for the attire of president and chairman of a successful company. Hansen, uncomfortable with the growth and concomitant change, had left the corporation and started a dairy farm in Vermont