Scott - I beg to differ.
There are no good earnings on the horizon, just alot of cowpatty empty promises (again). They better get rid of a whole bunch of folks to reduce their cash burn, and get some good management with some focus...but that will never happen while cowpatty is still there. The place is an organizational mess.... just look at all the experienced folks that just jumped ship, including the CFO...why?
re: linux suite - how much will the linux crowd be willing to pay? How may seats are there really? I can't see anything but selling it cheap - but then they have to support it, not like the low end graphics products. To who are they going to sell to? The enterprise customers don't trust Corel's longevity.... remember their OLAP product?
I feel badly for the Inprise crew.
re: Draw on linux - give me a break. Professional graphic artists use Macs and a few use PC's ... Linux? no way. Corel should be porting the products to the Mac, increase the quality of the product and fix their "cheap" image, but they just can't seem to get there. Maybe with their MetaCreations stuff they now have some incentive to get the Mac port done.
I just can't see anything positive, unless the place gets organized, gets some quality management, and gets rid of cowpatty.
good luck,
-Pete |
