ah good work you always get the news the fastest. For everybody that can't read I'll highlight the article so we can put to rest this rummour that Corel is abadoning Java.
< But Corel chief executive officer Michael Cowpland said the company was about two years away from getting its Corel Office for Java suite to perform the way it needed to be commercially viable.Users of test versions of the product complained that it was sluggish
Mr. Cowpland said Corel will continue to invest heavily in Java development, specifically in Corel Central, a personal information manager "It's definitely a blow, but more than it being a total reversal, it's a delay of things," Mr. Arnison said."Maybe it's a reflection that Java has done too much in too short a time frame, and that it needed to be given more time to age, like a good cheese."
"Cowpland set out to recreate the same monolithic piece of bloat-ware in Java and he obviously failed in doing that," Mr. Papows said. "It's a design failing, not a failing in Java." >
Now you have the rest of the story. If this was MS they would be pumping it out no matter what. Corel wants a good product. By the way Houston we have a problem and it can't wait till Sunday.
Microsoft Pulls Office 97 Service Release techweb.com The company's internal testing unit found a "rare" problem when saving a Microsoft Word document, a spokeswoman told CRN Online. "We haven't totally pinpointed the problem, but it's in the memory-allocation area," she said. ---
Start me up ,reload me up, reboot me up
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