I find it odd that someone who has no interest in a company spends months trashing the stock on a message board like this one. A normal investor would have moved on long ago rather than spending his energy in something he has no interest in!
Are you one of those paid Trashers we hear so much about???
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ONE OF YOUR EARLIER POSTS DATING BACK TO SEPTEMBER:
To: A. Reader (7335 )
From: Rod Macpherson
Saturday, Sep 4 1999 3:22AM ET
Reply # of 8133
Bad News and Bad News
First the bad news. As far as the DOD contract, Corel will get a few pennies for some graphics software that acts as a check mark for some PC bundle. Probably nobody will ever use the software that ships with those bundles. This happens all the time.
Now for the bad news. Star Office isn't just free it's undergoing a complete rewrite to a server-centric, Applix style model. Applix is not relying on its office productivity for revenue so they won't be hurt by this. Corel will be crushed. Sun has the dough and the talent to move Star Office to the front of the pack.
From Jim Seymour (You can get the whole thing from thestreet.com, probably the best news source for investors on the Internet butcha gotta pay):
Footnote: A hit-and-run victim in this deal may be GraphOn (GOJO:Nasdaq OTC BB), a small producer of tools for application service providers (ASPs), including one that lets ASPs deal traditional Windows programs, such as WordPerfect, out to customers running Linux. If a high-quality native-Linux-compatible office-productivity package, Star Office, is available for free, from a respected source like Sun -- and is likely to be quickly followed by an ASP-enabled version -- GraphOn is going to have one big ouch.
I couldn't agree more. Word Perfect might have enjoyed better sales had it not been offered from Corel. Having a respected source means a lot and when the respected source is giving it away, it's even better. |
