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To: i-node who wrote (4355)	2/7/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: Annette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5102

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! marlencowpland.com Check out the CEO of CORL'S WIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: i-node who wrote (4355)	2/7/2000 6:50:00 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 5102

Ray, Here is some info on CORL's CFO leaving last December. bigcharts.com Regards Tom

To: i-node who wrote (4355)	2/7/2000 8:19:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5102

Corel's Cowpland has jumped on every bandwagon imaginable. They are already well-established industry trends that the investing public has mistakenly viewed as forward thinking: Java, Network Computers, Windows Terminals, Linux and even OLAP, of all things. Corel seems to be good at jumping on established ideas and failing, badly. They gave up on Java, unloaded the failed Network Computer effort years late and with no customers lined up -- what were they doing all that time? They have not developed anything marketable in terms of OLAP and as for Linux, they don't have their own version! They use an existing distribution from Debian, strip it down and slap some install scripts on it. TRUST = ZERO Cowpland comes out and claims, without mentioning Debian, that "their" version of Linux will take the desktop market while Red Hat (who actually does have their own technology in addition to Linux) takes the server market. This is just a total farce on Cowpland's part. Red Hat is going for the Desktop as are several other Linux distributors. Sadly for investors, Cowpland is just blowing smoke and making it up as he goes along. They have nothing but competition for the Desktop in terms of Linux. I am curious what Debian Linux (that's what Corel is re-selling) thinks about all this. Cowpland has managed to keep dumping washed-up 80's product on computer companies that need to put "office product" on their list of included software: motherboard vendors are a prime example. They are the application vendors equivalent of spam. This acquisition makes no sense whatsoever, unless you are short in which case this is a fantastic development!