Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 18th Jan 2006 18:59 UTC
Corel is targeting disaffected Microsoft customers with discounted 'upgrade' offers for those who switch to the new WordPerfect Office X3. Corel on Tuesday announced an updated version of WordPerfect Office, its rival to Microsoft's dominant Office suite. The new program adds the ability to import and export its files to Adobe's PDF. The software also has a new interface and promises better support for multilingual characters and an easy way to strip out metadata from a file. ZDNet has a review too.
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2006-01-11
Yeah right.
I was working in the Corel office in Dublin (98 - 2001). Around the same time that Corel stopped working in linux, Corel reduced the Dublin office (European HQ) from around 250 employees to about 14 (tech support only, maybe a sales guy too). Did Microsoft pay for that too? Around the year before that they invested hugely in linux, with the Corel version of linux and the conversion of their apps to linux. This was in the dot com days. If anybody mentioned the word linux their share price went up $10. Our shares went up to around $60 (that could be Canadian I think). I remember, because we had employee options but were in a blackout period and we weren't allowed sell. By the time the blackout period ended the shares were around $14 (I sold them then). A month or two later they were around $3.
So maybe it's a vast Microsoft conspiracy to stop Corel from producing linux apps or maybe it was a company that decided to refocus on the apps that made their bread and butter.