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To: mowa who wrote (8368)	12/27/1999 8:52:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (2) of 9798

And for those who put a lot of hope in Star Office/Sun consider this, Sun was the architect and guiding hand of Java and bears principle responsibility for it's lack of success in the market. How much of Corel's Word Perfect/Java failure was tied to Java's larger failure? You are totally wrong on this one. Cowpie came out and said he would have a COJ suite when Java started to get some attention. The key word here is attention. Java didn't even have file and printing capabilities back then. It appears that most people still don't understand how he operates. The CEO of a company must have vision, understanding of the business he is in and most of all credibility. He pumped up COJ not knowing the technology for his application wasn't there and milked it till the cows came home. He was nobody at the first Java one conference and all of a sudden he was the talk of the conference due to his COJ effort. You can't blame Sun for his lack of understanding of the technology. He also lacks credibility and vision so the bottom line is he shouldn't be the CEO of Corel. Linux is the next big thing to get major attention and now Cowpie is right in the middle of it. Why can't this guy come up with his own attention getting idea. Let see way back when he had Coreldraw when Windows was first released. So far on my score card he has only been successful in one product Coreldraw. Now I think he is losing market share in that area. He has failed in many other products. How does that story go about a boy who cried wolf. The question is if he fails in his Linux effort will he dump his remaining millions of share just before the bad news or has he been slowly dumping them now? JMHO Mike

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