company The original developers of the WordPerfect wordprocessor and a variety of other applications for personalcomputers. WordPerfect was founded in Provo, Utah, USA in

1979 by Alan Ashton and Bruce Bastion as "Satellite Software

International". The company name was changed to Wordperfect

Corporation in 1986. The company was bought by Novell, Inc.

in 1994, who then sold it to Corel Corporation in 1996.