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To: louie who wrote (7914)12/8/1999 7:15:00 AM
From: A. Reader  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 9798
 
Looks like Jim Orban quit:
WATCHFIRE DRAWS TOP EXECUTIVE AWAY FROM COREL
Jim Orban joins Watchfire as Vice President of Sales and Marketing

OTTAWA, ON, December 7 /CNW-PRN/ - Watchfire, a leader in e-business quality assurance solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Orban to its executive team as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Orban joins Watchfire from his post as Executive Vice President Sales and Marketing of Corel Corporation, a graphics and business productivity applications company with a market capitalization of US$1.5 billion. At Corel, Mr. Orban was responsible for a worldwide team of 600 employees and an annual revenue target of $300 million.

''Jim joins Watchfire after a highly successful career at Corel Corporation. His combined international experience, track record and leadership abilities will help propel Watchfire to its next stage of aggressive growth,'' said Michael Weider, Watchfire founder and CEO. ''We are excited about attracting an executive of Jim's caliber...
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To: louie who wrote (7914)12/8/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Tie Zeng  Respond to of 9798
 
This is actually a great opportunity for CORL.
If they can hire someone who is high profile,
preferbably from US since most business is done
on this side, CORL would be triple from here easily.

They just need to do a better job at marketing.
And the rest will be history.

They are much better than Red Hat. No way they will be sold to RHET.

I was looking at $40 target. If they can hire someone
very good to replace Jim Orban, I will hold the stock much longer.

Tie