Editing Samna (section)

==From Samna to IBM==
The DOS versions of Samna competed with [[WordStar]], [[Wordperfect]], [[IBM DisplayWrite|DisplayWrite]], [[MultiMate]] and 
[[Microsoft Word|Microsoft's Word]] (DOS);<ref name=paper>{{cite web
|url=http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/book/wordprocessor/word.html
|title=Word processors}}</ref> Wordperfect and Wordstar were the leaders.

With the shift to Windows, the two market leaders were Ami Pro and MS Word for Windows, although Wordperfect still retained its lead in the then-declining DOS market.

Samna, which had been purchased by [[Lotus Software]], was subsequently acquired by [[IBM]], which was also marketing DisplayWrite. Meanwhile "Ami Pro (for Windows) achieved a far greater market share than its previous DOS incarnations."<ref name=paper/>

Although the third generation, [[IBM Lotus Word Pro]] is still in use,<ref>{{cite web
|title=Envelope Printing Problems In Lotus Ami Pro  |date=January 10, 2018
|url=http://okiprinting-en-us.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/721/~/envelope-printing-problems-in-lotus-ami-pro}} "Cause: Conflict between Program/Operating System/Driver Settings" (followed by) changes to be made "in the Print Envelope Options dialog box."</ref>
Microsoft Word for Windows, which followed and "learned from the highly successful Macintosh version of Word" is now the predominant word processing program.