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Technology Stocks : Corel - Investors with no Humor

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To: A. Reader who wrote (890)12/31/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: A. Reader   of 1094
 
Is Linux desktop DOA?
...."We'd like to become the dominant brand in the Linux world... We want to seed the market and bring Linux over to the desktop," says McNab.

A long way to go
Despite Corel's gusto surrounding the Linux desktop, it has been very slow getting off the ground. According to International Data Corp.'s preliminary 1998 numbers, Linux captured only 2.5 percent of the worldwide desktop market, positioning itself between Macintosh and IBM's OS/2 in the OS pecking order. Compared to Microsoft Windows' 86 percent market share, it isn't much to base a business on.
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