Interesting articles on current and future Corel products:
Check out the following article,
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I also was reading a very cool article in EE Times on Corel's new PDA which will be a small Java net computer. I wasn't able to find a reference to it on the net, but IMHO it is very bullish. Here is an excerpt:
"While Corel debates the final specs for its Java PDA< the company is gearing up to launch its Java-based suite of productivity applications first demoed at the Java One conference earlier this year. Corel has set Sept. 30 for when it will make the suite -- which includes a word processor, spreadsheet and charting program -- publicly available on its Web site.
The software, dubbed Office for Java, will run on a Java virtual machine and probably occupy not much more than 1 Mbyte when running on a client device, said Chris Biber, a Corel developer. Because the suite splits up tasks to run both on a server and on a low-cost network computer, Biber said the suite would be initially geared for use over a private intranet that could offer a guaranteed low-latency connection. A version that could handle the latencies in processing over the public Internet is at least six months away, he added.
Corel has developed much of the infrasturcture needed to run such full-blown applications on a Java virtual machine, said Eid. The company hopes to corss-license parts of that technology -- class libraries, a file system, and a repository manager - to oter groups working with Java, including Sun's Javasoft unit and Oracle Corp, whilch will develop a productivity suite in Java." It goes on ... |
