InstallShield

During the late 90s the company was doing 400 million USD in sales a year, but things started to slow down when Microsoft introduced a better default installer with the introduction of Windows XP, which lead many developers to conclude that the basic installer was good enough and competitors to release simpler and cheaper products that simply leached onto the Microsoft installer for most functions, and adding value with relatively small feature sets. The company was sold to Macromedia in 2004, they sold their business division to venture capitalists in 2008, who formed a company called "Acresso Software Corporation" around the operation and in 2009. Acresso changed its name to "Flexera Software" which continues to sell modern versions of InstallSHIELD.

The company actually kept supplying an OS/2 compatible version of InstallSHIELD until late 2006, but due to the ubiquity of IBM's Feature Installer and later other solutions such as WarpIN it remained off the radar for most OS/2 users and was mainly used by big OS/2 accounts as an internal tool.

Links

 * InstallShield corp feature - Chicago Tribune 1998