But after Sid does, she decides that things will be much better when the toys have moved sooner. Later that evening, after Buzz Lightyear is accidentally knocked out the window, Bo Peep is horrified when Mr. Potato Head blames Woody for the accident, and she tries to stop the toys from ambushing Woody, but they are forced to retreat when they hear Andy coming back to the room. That night, Bo Peep becomes shocked when she hears from Andy that Woody has gone missing, and tells Slinky Dog how she hopes Woody is okay. The next day, she is surprised to see Woody in Sid's room. But when Woody inadvertently exposes Buzz's severed arm, she screams in horror, beginning to doubt him. Worriedly facing the possibility that Mr. Potato Head was right about Woody being a murderer after all, she walks away from the window, trying not to think about it. On the night before the moving day, when seeing Andy sleeping sadly in his bed with his cowboy hat, she is shown to be worried about Woody as much as Andy is, suggesting that she still somewhat believes that Woody didn't harm Buzz. On the moving day, after the toys, under the orders of Mr. Potato Head, throw Woody out of the moving truck for trying to get rid of RC, Bo Peep was unable to do anything to stop them, but then Lenny the binoculars catches sight of Woody riding RC with Buzz. Comedian Dan Aykroyd, news broadcaster Peter Jennings and singer Bryan Adams are a few of the Canadians who have found success in America. Add Benjamin Cohen of West Windsor-based Logic Works to the list. In just five years, Cohen, a native of Ontario, has turned a one-person software company into a million dollar business that now has 20 employees. “Most Canadians don”t aspire to move to the States,” says Cohen. But Cohen, 41, wasn”t like most Canadians, and after high school he headed off to California to study philosophy at Stanford University. It was there that he first became acquainted with computers while studying logic. “Logic is a terrific background for running a software company,” he says.Ĭohen, who has a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford, learned well. Logic Works had sales of $1.6 million in 1992, and he says revenues this year will top $4 million. As recently as 1990 the company had revenues of just $250,000. “Every quarter has been higher since January 1990,” says Cohen. We create easy-to-use products that solve companies” problems.” “We”re extremely efficient both in development and in sales. Logic Works” client list reads like a Who”s Who of American business and includes names like Microsoft, Merck and AT&T. The company also has many overseas in Europe and Australia. “Our first goal was to sell one copy, and after that the goal was to sell 100 copies. Now we sell thousands of copies,” says Cohen. The company”s main product is ERwin, which costs between $2,495 and $4,995, depending on the model. The software, which allows companies to design their own data bases quickly and easily through the use of graphic designs, won Readers” Choice awards from DBMS magazine and DataBased Advisor in 1992. “ERwin helps people in big companies who need to build data bases,” says Cohen.Īfter finishing his studies at Stanford, Cohen went to work at the David Sarnoff Research Center in West Windsor, where he did research on software and data base languages. At nights and on weekends he also worked on ERwin. “It wasn”t until I turned 30 that I had the idea of running a software company,” says Cohen. In 1988, after completing an initial version, he left Sarnoff to form Logic Works. “It was quite difficult to leave,” he says. My boss walked me around the company trying to change my mind. I told my wife I”d be making my old salary in three months, but it actually took three years to reach that.”Īt first Cohen had to do consulting work, while continuing to develop the ERwin program. He also did just about everything around the office, including using the fax machine to make copies. “In the early days the hardest part was to fulfill an order,” says Cohen.
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