What Lotus thinks:
BY GEOFFREY ROWAN The Globe and Mail The president of Lotus Development Corp. has excoriated bitter rival Corel Corp. for its strategic
about-face, saying Corel's problem is Corel, and not the increasingly popular Java programming language.
"I would characterize it as not even a blip on the Java road, but I'd characterize it as a train wreck on the Corel journey," said Jeff Papows, president of
Lotus, a division of International Business Machines Corp. that is based in Cambridge, Mass.
"This is the failure of a vendor, not the path they were on," he said.
Mr. Papows was responding to Ottawa-based Corel's decision, announced earlier this week, to drop its efforts to launch a Java-based suite of office
productivity tools - word processor, spreadsheet, data base - called Corel Office for Java. |
