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To: i-node who wrote (4834)	4/29/2000 1:48:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) of 5102

All competitors boats rose after the announcements but you are right: the Microsoft Office for Linux will be released rather than just being polished in the background should it be broken up. They won't use a Windows Emulator as Corel is doing with what was already bloatware -- Linux Magazine has panned the product although allowing for the "beta" excuse. Where is Corel's Network Computer? How hard can it be to build a small desktop using off-the-shelf parts and put Linux on it? Apparently extremely hard since it was a year late when they finally "released" it a year or more ago. Meanwhile, children are doing the same thing in their basements every weekend. When Corel "released" they had no customers lined up after all that lead time so they dumped the product. Nobody was about to buy hardware from this company, not with their track record. Look at the Java Office Suite: Corel had no Java experience and they never designed an Office Product themselves -- it isn't clear that they ever actually designed any software themselves since they acquired most of it. Instead of building a foundation, they kept on promising a full product release. Had they used a sensible object-oriented design and iterative development approach, they would have discovered the problems early on. Not by accident but because professionals would no precisely what to look for. They would now have a substantial set of software assets in terms of their component library: valuable in and of themselves. Instead they ended up botching the product, blaming Sun and then canceling the entire effort. Where are the revenues from the Windows Terminal software? What about the OLAP that Cowpland was touting years ago? I have seen nothing but loud noises and empty promises from this bandwagon-jumping CD stamper. It's amazing that this tiny little backwater also-ran gets any attention at all. Anybody here actually use Novell's, er, Corel's Office? I thought so. The investment community pays no attention to Cowpland's hollow rhetoric anymore. It has become something of a circus: more comedy than substance. As for Linux, KDE and GNOME are the only serious shells out there. Trying to hack together your own buggy morass of X code to emulate the Windows look-and-feel is a brain-dead strategy. KDE walks the line perfectly and it's based on a very clean little C++ API called Qt that recently went to the open source model (with a few minor conditions). Corel took Debian Linux and stripped it down. I hesitate to even call it a distro in its own right. It's got a Corel sticker on the box but there are children, literally, with their own Linux distros that are superior to the Corel hatchet job.

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