To all, a news release on Corel's great retail sales:
Corel Tops Retail Sales According to Pc Data
OTTAWA, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Corel Corporation (Nasdaq-NNM: COSFF; Toronto: COS), an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software, has raced out of the gates to become the leader in retail office suite sales in the United States. Only five months after finalizing an agreement with Novell that catapulted them into the field of productivity applications, Corel's office suites have leapt out in front of Microsoft's as the most popular on the retail market.
Based on unit sales at the retail level for MS DOS, Windows(R) and Windows(R) 95 as compiled by PC Data, Corel's share of the office suite market stands at 50.9 per cent, with Microsoft coming in at 44.7 percent and Lotus trailing at 4.3 percent.
"The power, value and Internet connectivity of our Corel WordPerfect Suite has made it the best selling office suite at the retail level in the United States," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "With the release this week of our professional version, Corel Office Professional 7, we expect our sales momentum to get even stronger in the office suite market."
Corel's office suites include Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite for Windows 3.1x, Corel Office Professional for Windows 3.1x, Corel WordPerfect Suite 7 for Windows(R) 95 and Corel Office Professional 7 for Windows 95. Three tightly-integrated core applications -- Corel WordPerfect, Corel Quattro(R) Pro, and Corel Presentations(TM) -- are the backbone to each package with a host of additional features which offer ease-of-use, OLE functionality, open network integration and Internet connectivity. Corel Office Professional 7 also incorporates Corel's new Barista(TM) technology into all three core applications, making it the first software package on the market to enable users to publish documents directly to the Java(TM) Language.
Corel Corporation
Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and multimedia software. Corel's product line includes CorelDRAW(TM), the Corel WordPerfect Suite, Corel Office Professional, CorelVIDEO(TM) and over 30 multimedia software titles. Corel's products run on most operating systems, including: Windows, Macintosh, UNIX, MS-DOS and OS/2 and are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company ships its products in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries worldwide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: COS) and the Nasdaq -- National Market System (symbol: COSFF). For more information visit Corel's home page on the Internet at http://<a href="http://www.corel.com">www.corel.com</a>/a>;. |
