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To: sandeep who wrote (45423)	5/26/2000 12:47:00 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) of 74651

What "non-popular OSes" are you talking about? --- M$ writes IE for UNIX. M$ also spent a big wad of profits on a Unix<->nix app company recently. --- You're saying things that just aren't true. --- Corel's problems stem nearly entirely from declining WINDOWS office product market share. I think most reasonable people would agree that WordPerfect and the WP Suite is of a competitive quality to Microsoft's Suite. Certainly moreso than the market share allows. Corel isn't writing Unix programs. They are using an emulation layer of sorts (WINE) to make their legacy Win32 code stuff work on nix without HAVING to re-write. You'll note that they've gotten so good at hunting down the ever changing Windows API, they're able to put that knowledge to good and provide aid in getting Windows applications to run on *nix. -JCJ

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