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Technology Stocks : Corel Corp. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scott Volmar who wrote (8404)	1/2/2000 1:25:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Yes I've read it. The recent reviews of Corl's Borg compatible software are nice. So is Corl a Borg company or a Linux Company? And even if the reviewed products are best of breed, how big is the market? Also I can do 90% of what the Corl products do with my free Open Source stuff. Which means I can do 99.9% of what I need to do. So if Corl can generate revenue growth then it's a good investment. But I don't see the clear viability of the plan. Not that I know anything, but Corl's P/E is still very high. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Scott Volmar who wrote (8404)	1/4/2000 6:34:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

I'm afraid favorable reviews of ancient products aren't going to save this company. The general public might be fooled but this company is nothing more than a johnny-come-lately jumper of bandwagons. This time its Linux and we should expect the same result: a very loud fizzle. Linux is free, however, one can take that standard, bundle applications and support software with it and sell it. One could, but Corel isn't even that sophisticated. What Corel did was to take somebody else's distribution (Debian) then strip it down and throw in a light version of Corel Office. Corel isn't a Linux company but a Linux CD-ROM burner. They have stuffed the retail channels with product. Just in time to take up the slack from the royal channel stuffing they gave Corl Office before that. When the bag's empty the old tricks start to look mighty attractive. It's time to take off the technological beer-goggles and smell the coffee. If it's not one angle it's another, but they keep adding up to 360 degrees. Corel is going nowhere, slow. StarOffice is vastly superior and, like the Linux distribution Corel is apparently trying to claim as its own, it's free.