Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Oct 2005 11:35 UTC
Corel's Richard Carriere recently sat down with BetaNews to discuss the hype around alternative office suites and the future of WordPerfect. Carriere says the market is ready for an MS Office alternative, that Microsoft doesn't innovate, and OpenOffice.org and the OpenDocument format aren't yet viable.
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2005-07-06
You raise an interesting point: does OpenOffice make any money?
It doesn't, yet I've never seen Star Office anywhere in the spotlight untill Open Office evangelism popped up everywhere. It's something to consider.
WordPerfect supporting the same formats as Open Office would indeed mean competing on features alone, which is something that should be in Corel's interest, Open Office has the lack of price, but when people want support, they need to consider SO vs WP. If they both support ODF, then the cheapest, the one with best support, the one with best features will win. They can't win against OOo on price anyway.