Jaros,
Youre posts read very much like the quintessential Corel apologist, particularly the irresistible urge to throw in defensive statements regarding Cowpland. Anybody can tell you that Java Office Suites of the day required a multi-tier or at least a client-server approach. Applix had an office suite out there already. It would have taken maybe two weeks to model typical bottlenecks and benchmark that performance. Hopefully Corel wasn't just going on hype as you suggest, that would be another example of incompetent management. Applix was successful with their Java design based on even earlier Java technology. Corel was not what anybody would call an early adopter, following behind many companies including IBM and Applix. Now there are several highly productive office products written in Java. Jaros, this was poor planning and bad execution on Corel's part, followed by finger-pointing.
Word Perfect, Quattro Pro and the rest of that mish-mash of products are nothing more than flintstone-esque bloatware that they couldn't even manage to port without using a slow and buggy emulator. This is NOT cutting edge technology and it is in fact antithecal with regard to Linux. Now, I don't have any first hand knowledge of their painfully slow and buggy Linux office software, but words to that effect were included in a review inside Linux Magazine. They refused to rate it giving it a BETA, which was being kind if you ask me.
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