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To: Eveline Bernard who wrote (8367)	12/27/1999 11:31:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9798

Wrong Eveline! WP was the market leader when Microsoft was battling IBM, Novell and a host of other companies prior to Windows 3.0 being released. Word was nowhere and did not have a great reputation; that is, until the Windows 3.0 version mopped the floor up with Novell's product. Get a grip, WP lost it long before Microsoft was anything close to a monopoly. WP was horrible whereas Word was definitely reasonable. Things went from bad to worse and Novell unloaded the dog on Corel who also failed to move it forward. What Corel discovered was that cheap PC makers wanted to list an office suite on their marketing bullet-list as an included option, provided they could get it for peanuts. That's it, that's the whole story. A third-rate product found a home on low-rent PCs. Where's the OLAP product and revenue? The Windows terminal products? The Network PC? The Java Office Suite? Get real! Cowpland leaves through technical magazines looking for old trends that are about to break on the public scene and then slips in behind the bandwagon with a bullhorn. If Corel had its own Linux distribution (not Debian's) honed for several years I might take them seriously. As it stands, all Corel has is a CEO with a bullhorn and script.