Lighthouse Design (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lighthouse Design Ltd. was an American software company that operated from 1989 to 1996. Lighthouse developed software for NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system. The company was founded in 1989 by Alan Chung, Roger Rosner, Jonathan Schwartz, Kevin Steele and Brian Skinner, in Bethesda, Maryland. Lighthouse later moved to San Mateo, California. In 1996, Lighthouse was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Two of the first products developed at Lighthouse were Diagram and Exploder. Diagram was a drawing tool, in which objects are connected together using "smart links" to construct diagrams such a flow charts. Diagram was copied by Visio Corporation, who were acquired by Microsoft in 2000.