Right on! Let's forget about improving the Corel bottom line. Forget about changing product names. Forget about cutting cost, too. And forget about better marketing, focussing or other crap.
Forget it! It's not going to fly (unless, IDEA, Microsoft invests its standard 'keep-the-FTC-away' investment of $125M).
No. The only thing that's going to save the Corel shareholder is some heavy-duty yummy stock manipulation. Some seriously misleading stuff that's going to allow us all to reduce our holdings to more reasonable levels (zero) at a reasonable price (US$ 5 5/8, anyone?).
So there. Now, if Corel is going to tell (new! better!) lies then we might as well suggest something, otherwise things might go wrong once again. My idea: try one or more (better all?) of the following (COREL MANAGEMENT, ARE YOU LISTENING):
1. Corel announces an ambitious stock buyback plan right now 2. Cowpland files for insider buying (ok, never mind) 3. Corel announces a takeover by Sun for US$9.50 (They can tell Sun later. Hopefully nobody is owning Sun shares here?) 4. Corel proudly that announces George Soros invests $500 million! 5. Corel fires its CFO. Gross understatements of profit and 'material underrepresentation' of revenues were found. 6. Corel admits that, well, this time they tried Excel to produce their quarterly figures and it just doesn't add up.
If this fails, well, then... forget it?
-Alex |