After six years of financial difficulties and reorganizations, Corel finally seems on track with promising first and second quarters in 2006 and a return to public trading. One of the first steps in this turnabout, according to Graham Brown, executive vice president of software development at Corel, was the jettisoning of the company's products for Linux, WordPerfect for Linux and Corel Linux.
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Member since:2006-01-16
I know they had a port of their Office suit, I assumed they had a CorelDRAW port from what people said in this discussion. I really stopped paying attention to Corel after that incident? Fiasco? Whatever you want to call it. But I do remember Corel making claims about being able to run Windows applications just not for long after they realized it would involve lots of work. At that time their distribution was basically a webpage, some screenshots and a lot of hype and nothing was available.
Yes you are right this sounds a lot like what Lindows did with their distribution (but then again business plans back then weren't exactly unique) and I should look it up just to confirm but I haven't the time today. I'll look it up later (12 - 24 hours) and post again then.
Member since:2006-01-16
Like I said, Corel Linux originally was supposed to run Windows apps.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,39020351,2070972,00.htm
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2005-07-25
Corel Linux didn't make any claims to Windows application compatibility. That was Lindows. Corel's claim was seamless network interoperability with Windows Server Networks, and in that they succeeded exceptionally well. As for WordPerfect Office 2000, yes it was run through a custom version of Wine, and it worked quite well as long as your distro of Linux was Corel. The horror stories came from people trying to run WPO2000 on RedHat, SuSE or Debian (Potato). Corel never adapted CorelDraw to Linux, that was PhotoPaint 9 which was also run through Wine.
I've had Corel Linux 1.2 running on an old PII 350MHz with WPO2000 since they both came out. It does everything it claims. It connects seamlessly to my WindowsXP network, WPO2000 has never crashed although the re-drawing is slow, and even Paradox works well. Mozilla 1.2 is as new of a web browser you can use on it, however.