SoftSolutions was a very early document management system (or DMS), which was used primarily by

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s. While the system was in (relatively) wide use, it was purchased by WordPerfect in 1994, which was subsequently purchased by

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in 1995, and was incorporated into

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4.1. SoftSolutions was subsequently terminated as a product, but its features were incorporated into Novell's Group Wise product.Novell Updates GroupWise
/ref> SoftSolutions is one of many products which caused near apocalyptic fears at the end of the 20th century, due to its " Y2K" non-compliance.

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